Press Freedom
CPJ Updates
- Global impunity in journalist murders continues unabated
- Getting Away with Murder
- Members of public assault Israeli journalist Daniel Siryoti in Kiryat Ata
- Pakistan media regulator walks back ban on news anchors expressing personal opinions
- Sierra Leone journalist Mahmud Tim Kargbo charged with criminal defamation
- Palestinian court orders block of dozens of news websites and Facebook pages
- Chinese journalist Sophia Huang Xueqin detained following coverage of Hong Kong protests
- CPJ calls on Tajik president to ensure journalists can report the news freely and safely
- Australian newspapers stand together for press freedom
Reporter Without Borders
- India strips overseas citizenship from reporter who criticized Modi
- Tajikistan’s autocratic leader visits Paris
- RSF concern in run-up to Ján Kuciak murder trial
- South Sudan expels another journalist, second in two weeks
- Mexican government declines to recognize freedom of expression crisis
- On the eve of UPR, Kazakhstan urged to decriminalize press offences
- Press freedom violations recounted in real time January 2019
- Sri Lankan presidential candidates asked to guarantee editorial independence
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.