Press Freedom
CPJ Updates
- Sierra Leone security forces attack, charge journalist covering COVID-19
- Tajikistan bans independent Akhbor news website
- Peruvian political cartoonist Carlos Tovar Samanez receives death threats
- Journalists detained, assaulted in India during COVID-19 lockdown
- Iran arrests 2 journalists for allegedly sharing cartoon mocking government’s COVID-19 response
- CPJ, 73 media and rights groups urge Asian heads of state to release jailed journalists
- Chinese police detain 2 volunteers who collect and share censored news, 1 more missing
- CPJ, partners call for release of Beninese journalist Ignace Sossou on appeal
- Police in India’s Tamil Nadu state arrest journalist over COVID-19 coverage
Reporter Without Borders
- Zimbabwe: Two journalists held for violating coronavirus lockdown rules
- Vietnam arrests two leading members of independent journalists group
- Covid-19: six Chinese defenders of press freedom still in detention
- Beijing’s “national security” measures threaten Hong Kong’s journalists
- Cameroon: Imprisoned journalist’s case referred to UN special rapporteur on right to health
- Cambodian radio journalist held for covering land dispute
- Regulators gradually imposing official line monopoly on Turkey’s media
- Myanmar journalist jailed for two years for reporting Covid-19 death
CPJ Outlines Trump’s Press Freedom Attacks in New Report
The Trump Administration’s methods of undermining press freedom and media credibility have been “dangerously effective,” according to a special report prepared for The Committee to Protect Journalists. The CPJ has formally requested a meeting with President Trump to discuss its concerns.