Americas

The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 22 press freedom and media partner organizations in a December 12 letter calling on Miami-Dade State Attorney Fernandez Rundle to drop charges against photojournalist Dave Decker. On December 16, all charges were dismissed. Decker was arrested on November 22 while covering a protest near the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Krome North…

Update: Following the DHS’s decision to drop its proposal to deport the journalist to Uganda, CPJ calls on the agency to ensure that the journalist can stay in the U.S. while continuing the process of applying for asylum. Washington, D.C., December 18, 2025—The Trump administration’s plan to deport a Chinese citizen journalist — who fled…

Washington, D.C., December 17, 2025— The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against British public broadcaster, the BBC, and calls on the president to stop engaging the media in lawsuits that appear to challenge the fundamentals of the First Amendment. “The president’s lawsuits against the BBC and other news outlets undercut…

Read this story en français in collaboration with AyiboPost. Violent attacks and threats waged by a coalition of militarized gangs are among the many risks Haitian journalists face to report the news amid intensifying insecurity in the country’s capital city, Port-au-Prince. Yet as a rotating cast of transitional leaders hope to restore order across the Caribbean nation,…

Mexico City, Dec. 9, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Honduran authorities to swiftly and impartially investigate journalist Henry Torres’ attack in the western municipality of San Marcos Ocotepeque and fully hold those responsible to account. Around 10:45 a.m. on December 4, Mayor Gerardo Antonio Mejía and his cousin and municipal employee, Jester Cardona…

The Committee to Protect Journalists joined Espacio OSC, a coalition of Mexican civil society organizations, in a joint statement expressing deep concern over irregularities in the implementation of basic protection measures for journalists by the Mexican Federal Mechanism for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Journalists. In 2012, the federal mechanism was created in…

Update: The law was signed into law on December 14. The Committee to Protect Journalists, International Press Institute, and Reporters Without Borders, led a coalition of 15 press freedom organizations in a joint statement calling for the rejection of Puerto Rico’s Senate Bill 63, which would severely limit the territory’s constitutional right to access public…

After British climate journalist Dom Phillips was found dead in Amazonas’ state Javary Valley region on June 15, 2022, his widow, Alessandra Sampaio, set out to finish his most important work, compiled in the new book “How to Save the Amazon.” Now she is helping prepare a new generation of Indigenous leaders to continue their fight to defend the…

Miami, December 4, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply alarmed by threats made against Radio TV Caraibes (RCTV) news host Ronald Desormes by Haitian gang leader Jimmy ‘Barbecue’ Cherizier, and calls on the Caribbean nation’s authorities to take comprehensive steps to ensure Desormes’ safety. In a widely disseminated social media video reviewed by CPJ, Cherizier — leader…

Wanted Colombian rebel leader Aníbal Hernández Garavito was irate when he called into the local Es el Colmo (“It’s the last straw”) radio program at 5:48 a.m. on March 14, 2025. His voice raised, Hernández slammed the station’s critical coverage of his guerrilla group, but show host Gustavo Chicangana Álvarez refused to be bullied. Hernández, who had a  $13,000 bounty on…