2025

CPJ and other six press freedom groups launched a joint statement expressing deep concern over recent attacks against journalists and media outlets in Honduras, including Salvadoran journalist Javier Antonio Hércules Salinas’ June 1 killing and the judicial criminalization of at least 12 media outlets facing ongoing legal complaints with the Public Prosecutor’s Office.  Statement signatories have also submitted…

CPJ and 24 other international press freedom groups, led by IFEX, signed an open letter urging the Venezuelan government to immediately release lawyer and human rights defender Eduardo Torres, a member of the Venezuelan Program for Human Rights Education-Action. Government officials confirmed that Torres was detained May 13 but have since provided no information on…

Nairobi, June 10, 2025—Ethiopian authorities should immediately release journalist Tesfalem Waldyes, founder and editor-in-chief of the privately owned news outlet Ethiopia Insider, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Tuesday. He remains in detention despite having been granted bail. “The detention of Tesfalem Waldyes, even after a court-ordered his release, underscores the Ethiopian government’s disregard for judicial processes…

Bangkok, June 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes justice for Cambodian journalist Chhoeung Chheng, whose killer, Sy Loeuy, was convicted and sentenced to 12 years in prison by a Siem Reap provincial court on May 28, according to multiple press reports. The ruling was made public June 5, the reports said. Described as a local farmer and…

Paris, June 9, 2025—Iranian-American journalist Reza Valizadeh, who is serving a 10-year sentence in Tehran’s Evin Prison, launched a hunger strike on June 7 to protest the seizure of his essential documents, including his birth certificate, which he needs to manage his legal affairs and protect his assets abroad. Valizadeh, a former Radio Farda reporter, returned to…

Washington, D.C., June 9, 2025—Law enforcement in Los Angeles, California, shot non-lethal rounds that struck multiple reporters while they covered protests that began on Friday, June 6, and escalated over the weekend following immigration raids. More than 20 others were reported to have been assaulted or obstructed. President Donald Trump deployed 2,000 National Guard members to the state, against California Governor Gavin Newsom’s and…

Update: Omar Faiad was deported to France on June 10, 2025. Details of his deportation and the imprisonment of both journalists are included in the 10th to 13th paragraphs. New York, June 9, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Israeli authorities to immediately and unconditionally release two French journalists held among the crew of…

Lusaka, June 6, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by a Zambian court’s issuance of an interim injunction to prevent the airing of a documentary on Chinese investment in the southern Africa country, pending a June 12 hearing. The Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Zambia sued privately owned News Diggers after the outlet shared a…

Kinshasa, June 6, 2025—Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo should reverse the 90-day suspension of media coverage on the activities of the People’s Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD), the political party of former President Joseph Kabila, and all other restrictions on reporting, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday. “The authorities in…

The Committee to Protect Journalists and four other international media freedom organizations welcomed Thursday’s conviction of Robert Agius and Jamie Vella for supplying military-grade explosives to the hitmen who murdered Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia with a car bomb. The two men, part of a Maltese criminal gang, are due to be sentenced in…