July 7, 2025
Roxana Saberi, a journalist formerly imprisoned in Iran, along with experts from the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International-USA, will discuss violations of human rights that have taken place in the context of Iran’s recent presidential election. Join us for the news conference at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, June 30.
The war is over, but Sri Lanka remains one of the three or four most dangerous countries in the world for a journalist to work. Even if the Sri Lankan government is not directly responsible for the attacks on journalists, it has created the conditions for persecution with impunity.
Whatever the outcome of the current electoral dispute, no good can result from Iran to continue its heavy-handed repression of journalists who are trying to report these events to the world.
The murder of radio-commentator Crispin Perez is the sixth shooting of a Philippine journalist this year, which is an unprecedented level of violence against the press. We urge the Philippine government to bring the killers to justice.
The OPC writes to condemn the vicious attacks on the media in Somalia. They are the most deadly in all of Africa this year: five journalists have been killed, and others injured, harassed, threatened, or forced to flee the country.
Reporters Without Borders marked World Refugee Day on June 18 by publishing a guide for journalists driven into exile, to provide them with information about the procedures and potential obstacles in seeking asylum.
New York Times correspondent David Rohde and his interpreter, Afghan reporter Tahir Ludin, were kidnapped by the Taliban last November 10, but they escaped from their captors June 20 and fled to safety.
After photojournalist Shahidul Alam’s arrest in India, he was arrested a few hours later by Bangladeshi authorities and kept in custody overnight and appeared in court in the morning. In a blog posted on June 16, Alam writes about his experience.
NYT: Visas for many of the foreign journalists in Iran are expiring this week, depriving the world of independent sources of information about the violent protests that erupted after the disputed presidential election.
Journalist Suzanne Breen does not have to hand over her notes to the police, the High Court in Belfast has ruled. The Police Service of Northern Ireland was trying to force Breen to hand over material linked to articles she had written on the Real IRA.
