Press Freedom
CPJ Updates
- Police raid Cairo offices of Turkish Anadolu News Agency, arrest at least 4
- Ugandan police harass and detain journalists covering opposition politician Bobi Wine
- Journalist Patricia Kayuni assaulted while covering protest in Malawi
- Missing radio anchor found dead in Mexico’s Michoacán state
- Sudan suspends four news outlets over alleged financial link to Bashir regime
- Colombian magazine Semana alleges military spied on its journalists
- Montenegro reporters Živković and Raičević charged with criminal incitement
- Malawi detains, charges 3 journalists seeking to cover EU delegation’s return
- Journalists threatened, assaulted while covering local politician in Sierra Leone
Reporter Without Borders
- Press freedom violations recounted in real time January 2020
- Change to “fake news” law poses new threat to Qatar’s journalists
- Somali president asked not to sign “deadly” media bill into law
- Decision to charge Greenwald is a “unjustified reprisal,” RSF says
- Indonesia : US environmental reporter detained arbitrarily in Borneo
- Open letter about threats to Iranian journalists in six EU countries and US
- Russian republic’s leader says critical journalists should be “wiped out”
- Pakistani journalist jailed over Facebook posts
Libya
Parents of Austin Tice Pen Open Letter Ahead of Anniversary
Marc and Debra Tice hold a news conference about their missing son, American journalist Austin Tice. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
August 14 will mark the seventh anniversary of freelance journalist Austin Tice’s disappearance while reporting on the civil war in Syria. In an open letter published in the Washington Post, Marc and Debra Tice (Austin’s parents) call on journalists, political leaders and readers to take action.