Press Freedom
CPJ Updates
- Several journalists say US border agents questioned them about migrant coverage
- Pakistani journalist arrested for critical Twitter posts
- Mexico denies entry to at least 2 journalists covering migrant caravan
- Russia investigates reporter, seizes property over allegations of "justifying terrorism"
- CPJ holds presser outside White House, calls on Trump administration to reveal its findings on Khashoggi murder
- #JusticeForJamal campaign culminates with call for administration to respond to Senate inquiry
- Ugandan authorities arrest BBC journalists investigating black market drug sales
- CPJ calls on Jammu and Kashmir police to drop charges against journalist
- Two radio journalists shot and killed in northern Afghanistan
Reporter Without Borders
- South Korea: RSF condemns ruling party’s bashing of journalists
- Vietnamese blogger turns up in Hanoi jail after going missing in Bangkok
- Increasing pressure for Cameroonian journalist’s release
- Turkmenistan bans journalist Soltan Achilova from travelling abroad
- Congolese community radio ransacked by president’s supporters
- US – State Department bars press corps from Pompeo briefing
- Journalist murdered in southern Honduras, first this year
- Serb protesters storm public TV channel to denounce reporting bias
Sudan
Detained Peter Mackler Award Winner Freed
Khartoum at night. Photo: Aamirco/Wikimedia Commons
Sudanese security authorities have released journalist Faisal Mohamed Salih, who was arrested Jan. 3 for supporting anti-government protests. Faisal received the 2013 Peter Mackler Award for Courageous and Ethical Journalism.