As journalists remain at risk Afghanistan, efforts continue to resettle those who managed to flee the country. Those who escaped include 20-year-old Zahra Adeli, (pictured above right), now in Ireland after living her entire life in the shadow of war. CPJ Emergencies research associate Lucy Westcott (left) details the flight of the Adeli family and others trying to find new homes in her diary from Doha. Meanwhile, there’s still ‘a lot of uncertainty and a lot of fear’ among media workers still in Afghanistan, says CPJ Emergencies Director María Salazar Ferro. (Photo courtesy Lucy Westcott)
People face off with Kentucky State Troopers during a protest against the deaths of Breonna Taylor by Louisville police and George Floyd by Minneapolis police, in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. May 29, 2020. REUTERS/Bryan Woolston – RC2PYG9106R3
People face off with Kentucky State Troopers during a protest against the deaths of Breonna Taylor by Louisville police and George Floyd by Minneapolis police, in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. May 29, 2020. REUTERS/Bryan Woolston – RC2PYG9106R3
A woman takes part in a protest outside the CNB Radio headquarters in Caracas August 1, 2009. The first of 34 radio stations ordered shut by the Venezuelan government went off the air on Saturday, part of President Hugo Chavez’s drive to extend his socialist revolution to the media. The banner reads, “Where is your freedom of information?” REUTERS/Jorge Silva (VENEZUELA POLITICS CONFLICT MEDIA) – GM1E582029G01
Spin Boldak, Afghanistan Danish Siddiqui was killed on July 16, 2021, while covering a clash between Afghan security forces and Taliban fighters in the town of Spin Boldak, near the border with Pakistan, according to Afghan military officials.
Siddiqui, 38, was embedded with Afghan special forces at the time of his death. He was a member of the Reuters photography team that won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for their coverage of Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar.
