2024

  
Patricia Ramírez González

Mexican journalist Paty Bunbury shot dead in Colima, 2nd killed in less than 24 hours

Mexico City, October 31, 2024—Mexican authorities must immediately and transparently investigate Wednesday’s killing of journalist Patricia Ramírez González, also known as Paty Bunbury, in the city of Colima, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday.  Ramírez, an entertainment reporter for the privately owned Hechos newspaper, was the second Mexican journalist killed in less than 24…

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Ahead of the US election, we delivered safety training to over 700 journalists. Here’s what the press must know to keep safe.

The November 2024 U.S. presidential election will take place after years of an increasingly polarized political climate in the country. This election comes after two previous contentious presidential election cycles, amid high levels of distrust in the media and a recent history of journalists being arrested, assaulted, and attacked in-person and online, including at protests….

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Vietnamese blogger handed 12-year prison sentence for anti-state propaganda

Bangkok, October 31–A court in Hanoi sentenced Duong Van Thai, an independent Vietnamese blogger who went missing in Thailand and was later in Vietnamese custody in April 2023, to 12 years in prison and three years’ probation on Wednesday on charges of anti-state propaganda. “Vietnam’s harsh sentencing of blogger Duong Van Thai is grotesque and an outrage, particularly amid allegations he…

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Arko Edward and Erastus Asare Donkor

Mine security guards attack media crew covering environmental degradation in Ghana

Abuja, October 31, 2024–The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Ghanaian authorities to swiftly investigate and hold accountable the security guards who attacked four journalists and media workers working for the privately owned Multimedia Group conglomerate at a mining site in the country’s southern Ashanti region. On October 20, at least 10 armed security guards…

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On October 21, unidentified individuals wearing gloves kicked the front door and attempted to forcibly enter the premises of Radio BIP/Média 25’s headquarters in Besançon, eastern France. (Photo credit: Radio BIP/Média 25)

French media outlet known for reporting on far-right comes under fresh attack

New York, October 30, 2024—French authorities must complete their investigation and take steps to ensure the safety of journalists at Radio BIP and its online newspaper Média 25 following the recent attack on the outlet’s offices, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday. “CPJ is alarmed by the recent attack on Radio BIP/Média 25’s headquarters, which follows a…

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Reporter Mauricio Cruz Solís is seen in a video image shortly before he was shot dead by unidentified assailants in the state of Michoacán, in southwestern Mexico, on October 29, 2024. (Screenshot: El Economista TV/YouTube)

Mexican reporter shot dead moments after interviewing mayor

Mexico City, October 30, 2024—Unidentified assaults shot and killed journalist Mauricio Cruz Solís at around 10 p.m. on Tuesday, October 29, in Urupan, a city in the southwestern state of Michoacán, moments after he interviewed Uruapan Mayor Carlos Manzo about a recent local market fire.  “The brutal and brazen killing of journalist Mauricio Cruz Solís…

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Bakary Gamalo Bamba

Guinean journalist Bakary Gamalo Bamba charged with violating judge’s privacy

Dakar, October 30, 2024—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for the release of journalist Bakary Gamalo Bamba, director of the bimonthly newspaper Le Baobab, who has been detained since October 20 on charges of invasion of privacy. “Guinean authorities should immediately and unconditionally release journalist Bakary Gamalo Bamba, who has been jailed since October 20,…

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Aleksandar Šapić

Belgrade mayor calls N1 TV journalists ‘manipulators,’ reports ‘fake’

New York, October 30, 2024—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Serbian authorities to condemn the recent verbal attacks against journalists from private independent TV station N1 and other outlets by Belgrade Mayor Aleksandar Šapić and ensure journalists can safely carry out their work without fear of intimidation or reprisal. “We are deeply concerned by…

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Journalists photograph and film Kenyan police as they guard the U.S. Embassy in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on July 5, 2024. Haiti and Israel rank as the world’s worst offenders in letting journalists’ murderers go unpunished, according to CPJ’s 2024 Global Impunity Index. (Photo: AFP/Clarens Siffroy)

CPJ 2024 Impunity Index: Haiti and Israel top list of countries where journalist murders go unpunished

Impunity for the killers of journalists continues unabated at nearly 80% worldwide New York, October 30, 2024 — Two small nations with outsized levels of impunity—Haiti and Israel—are the world’s top offenders in allowing the murderers of journalists to go unpunished. Globally, impunity remains entrenched, as no one is held to account in almost 80% of…

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‘If you scream no one will hear you’: Pakistani journalists report in fear amid spike in media killings

Hope for justice in journalist murders is dim across the world, but especially in Pakistan, which has appeared on CPJ’s Global Impunity Index every year since the list’s inception in 2008. This year, the South Asian country ranks twelfth out of the 13 worst offenders. CPJ’s impunity index lists countries where perpetrators who kill journalists…

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