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Safety Advisory: Covering protests in France (Artwork: Jack Forbes)

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Militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham threatens to execute Syrian journalist Amjed al-Maleh
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Israel raids Palestinian news agency, detains journalist in the West Bank
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Nicaraguan police raid independent Radio Dario
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CPJ Safety Advisory: Covering protests in France and Belgium
U.S. Press Freedom Tracker

CPJ and the Freedom of the Press Foundation, in collaboration with other press freedom groups, lead this nonpartisan website on the number of press freedom violations in the United States.

Israeli soldiers deploy during clashes in the West Bank city of Ramallah following a raid on December 10, 2018, one day after a drive-by shooting attack next to a settlement in which many Israelis were injured. Israeli forces raided the offices of the official Palestinian news agency, and detained a Palestinian journalist. (AFP/Abbas Momani)
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Israel raids Palestinian news agency, detains journalist in the West Bank
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Nicaraguan police raid independent Radio Dario
A police officer stands guard after members of the press wrote messages on the street during a protest against the murder or disappearance of more than 140 journalists in Mexico since 2000, in front of the National Palace in Mexico City on June 1, 2018. The body of journalist Alejandro Márquez Jiménez was found on December 1, 2018, near Tepic, the capital of the northwestern state of Nayarit. (AFP/Yuri Cortez)
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Mexican journalist shot dead in Nayarit
Shoppers are pictured at the Golden Horn in Istanbul's Eminonu district in November 2018. An appeals court in the city has upheld sentences for five journalists who took part in the Özgür Gündem solidarity campaign. (AFP/Ozan Kose)
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Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week beginning November 25, 2018
Turkey's Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak, pictured at a press conference in Ankara in August 2018. A Turkish newspaper is accused of insulting the minister through its reporting. (AFP/Adem Altan)
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Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of November 8, 2018
A member of the Capital Gazette takes part in a candlelight vigil near the newspaper's office on June 29. Several local newsrooms are reassessing security after the deadly attack. (Reuters/Leah Millis)
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Panic buttons, cameras, and a gun under the desk: Local newsrooms update security in wake of Capital Gazette attack
Customs and Border Protection agents pictured at Los Angeles International Airport in January 2017. The agency’s power to search electronic devices without warrant has serious implications for press freedom. (Reuters/Patrick T. Fallon)
Reports
Nothing to declare: Why U.S. border agency's vast stop and search powers undermine press freedom
Reports
Acts of Intimidation: In Pakistan, journalists' fear and censorship grow even as fatal violence declines
Reuters/Henry Romero
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The U-turn: Moreno steers Ecuador away from Correa's media repression
Israeli soldiers deploy during clashes in the West Bank city of Ramallah following a raid on December 10, 2018, one day after a drive-by shooting attack next to a settlement in which many Israelis were injured. Israeli forces raided the offices of the official Palestinian news agency, and detained a Palestinian journalist. (AFP/Abbas Momani)
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Israel raids Palestinian news agency, detains journalist in the West Bank
Alerts
Nicaraguan police raid independent Radio Dario
A protester waves the French flag during a rally in Paris on December 1 against a proposed fuel tax hike. Journalists covering the unrest across France and Belgium are at risk of being attacked and injured. (AFP/Alain Jocard)
Safety Advisories
CPJ Safety Advisory: Covering protests in France and Belgium

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CPJ, RSF call on Philippines to end its persecution of Rappler and Maria Ressa

CPJ and RSF call on the Philippine prosecutor general to end the legal harassment of Rappler and the website's founder and executive editor, Maria Ressa.

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