Search results for Committee To Protect Journalists (Cpj)

Press watchdog warns of 'systematic failure' as Israel kills 3 reporters in Gaza, southern Lebanon

The Committee to Protect Journalists urged journalist killings to be investigated as potential war crimes, as an Al Jazeera correspondent was killed in a targeted strike in Gaza Ci...

Press group requests investigation into violent attack against journalists in India

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Thursday called on authorities in India to investigate a violent attack against two journalists while covering the Health Minister’s v...

CPJ demands progress on US probe of journalist Abu Akleh killing, four years on

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Thursday called for US authorities to relaunch their investigation into the Israeli military's killing of Palestinian American journal...

Committee to Protect Journalists demands Kuwait release American reporter Ahmed Shihab-Eldin

The CPJ demands Kuwait release detained American journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, who reportedly faces charges tied to broad national security laws.

Tunisia: CPJ Condemns 18-Month Sentence Against Tunisian Commentator Sonia Dahmani

[CPJ] New York -- The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Tunisian authorities to repeal the April 13 appeals court decision to uphold the conviction of Tunisian political co...

CPJ warns of potential dangers from FIFA host countries for traveling journalists

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) warned Thursday that journalists covering the FIFA World Cup 2026 may face hostility from the authorities. The warning comes with a trave...

Zambia: CPJ Calls On Zambian President to Champion the Media As World Press Freedom Day Host

[CPJ] The Committee to Protect Journalists wrote to Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema expressing concern over recent attacks on journalists and legislation that negatively impa...

South Sudan: South Sudan's New Cybercrime Law Ramps Up Threat of Jail for Journalists

[CPJ] Kampala -- The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in South Sudan to urgently reform its new cybercrimes law, which punishes defamation with up to five year...

End Attacks on Journalists, UN Commands

The United Nations has raised alarm over the escalating assault on journalists worldwide, insisting that such attacks must cease immediately. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rig...

CPNE elects Kazim Khan unopposed as president, flags press freedom concerns

Participants express concern over decline in government advertising for newspapers

Press group condemns online smear campaign against Moldova journalist Viorica TДѓtaru

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Friday condemned what it called a coordinated online smear campaign targeting Moldovan journalist Viorica TДѓtaru, warning that the at...

Attacks on media workers must end, UN urges

War in the Middle East has made Lebanon the deadliest country for media workers so far this year, but practically no country offers a safe environment in which to be a journalist,...

FBI’s lack of progress on Israeli killing of journalist ‘troubling’: CPJ

The CPJ says the 'lack of concrete progress' in the FBI investigation represents a failure by the US government.

Media freedom groups urge Kazakhstan's president to drop charges against journalists

The Committee to Protect Journalists and five other international press freedom and human rights groups have urged Kazakhstan's president to drop criminal charges against several j...

Journalists harassed at public hearing to debate Zimbabwe constitutional amendments

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Friday called on on Zimbabwean authorities to investigate harassment and violence against journalists that took place during a public...

BhUJ calls for protection of journalists’ rights

Congo-Kinshasa: DRC Journalist Detained Since January, Another in Hiding After Mining Impact Report

[CPJ] Kinshasa -- The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to release journalist Stéphane Shisso, who was arrested in Janua...

Ethiopia: Ethiopian Editor Seized From Addis Standard Newsroom By Unidentified Men

[CPJ] Nairobi -- The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Ethiopian authorities to do everything in their power to locate and free Addis Standard managing editor Million Beyen...

Sudan: Sudan's RSF Paramilitary Group Detains Journalist Adam Issac Minan

[CPJ] New York -- The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan to immediately release journalist Adam Issac Minan, who was kidnapped by the...

At World Press Freedom Day, UN Voices Concerns over Growing Attacks on Journalists

The United Nations (UN) has voiced concerns over what it termed the growing attacks on journalists, warning that attacks on media workers must stop. UN High Commissioner for Human...

Somalia: Somalia - Seventy-Two Press Freedom Violations Documented in 2025

[IFJ] The report documents 69 attacks on journalists and two attacks on media outlets, as well as the killing of journalist Mohammed Abukar Mohammed on 18 March 2025. This represen...

Record 129 journalists killed in 2025 as global press freedom hits new low

Qatar Press Centre marks World Press Freedom Day with call for stronger protections

Qatar Press Center underscored the importance of protecting journalists and safeguarding press freedom. Marking World Press Freedom Day on 3 May, the Qatar Press Centre (QPC) reaff...

Journalism has never been a more dangerous pursuit

Facts can be expensive in a dangerous world. I have covered some brutal wars during my three decades at the Guardian, but journalists are now actively targeted in a way I have neve...