Camille Lepage
Lepage, 26, a freelance French photojournalist, was killed while embedded with a pro-government Christian militia known as anti-Balaka, according to news reports. Clashes between the anti-Balaka forces and the Seleka forces, a coalition of mostly Muslim rebels, have left the Central African Republic wracked in violence since March 2013, when Seleka forces deposed President Francois…
Mohammed Taha Mohammed Ahmed
Masked gunmen bundled Taha, editor-in-chief of the private daily Al-Wifaq, into a car outside his home in east Khartoum late on September 5. Police found his severed head next to his body in an area south of the capital the following day. His hands and feet were bound, according to a CPJ source and news…
Helge Hummelvoll
Hummelvoll, a freelance journalist on assignment for Norwegian Church Aid, was killed in the region of eastern Equatoria in southern Sudan. He and a Burmese relief worker were shot in the back at close range. Rival factions of the Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Army, which is fighting against the government of Lt. Gen. Omar Hassan al-Bashir,…
Proposed impeachment press restrictions | Two Iraqi journalists killed in protest
CPJ on Wednesday urged Senate authorities to reconsider proposed restrictions on journalists covering President Trump’s impeachment trial and to consider feedback from the Standing Committee of Correspondents. CPJ argued that increased restrictions would make it more difficult for journalists to cover a major news event and limit the public’s insight into the impeachment proceedings. In…
Deadly week in Mexico: Three journalists killed
Do you have five minutes? Please take this survey to help us improve this newsletter. Thank you! Three journalists were killed in Mexico in less than a week. CPJ is investigating to determine if they were killed in retaliation for their work. Jorge Celestino Ruiz Vázquez, a reporter for the newspaper El Gráfico, was shot…
Journalists released in Nicaragua and Russia; Mexican journalist killed, another kidnapped
Nicaraguan journalists Miguel Mora and Lucía Pineda Ubau were released Tuesday after nearly six months in jail. The charges were dropped under a controversial amnesty law passed last week. In Russia, prominent investigative journalist Ivan Golunov was released Tuesday following an international outcry and support from the Russian public and the journalistic community, including three…
Saudi Arabia arrests journalist on unknown charges
In Saudi Arabia, journalist Zuhair Kutbi was arrested on unknown charges, and Eman Al Nafjan and Hatoon al-Fassi, two of the four female journalists critical of the ban on women driving whom Saudi authorities arrested last year, were tried. They appeared in court Wednesday on charges under the cybercrime law, including supporting “hostile elements.” In…
251 journalists jailed worldwide; third worst year on record
On Thursday, the Committee to Protect Journalists released its annual prison census–a snapshot of the number of journalists behind bars as of December 1, 2018. For the third consecutive year, at least 251 journalists are behind bars for their work, as authoritarian regimes increasingly use imprisonment to silence dissent. Read their stories here. Global press…
CPJ Insider: December 2018 edition
CPJ’s 2018 awardee Maria Ressa under increasing threat Days before Maria Ressa came to New York to accept CPJ’s 2018 Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award, the Philippine government announced that it planned to indict her and the news website she founded, Rappler, for tax evasion and failure to file tax returns.