Press Center

[email protected]
+1 (212) 300-9017

A courtroom sketch of journalist Mzia Amaglobeli's heariing on Monday, July 14, 2025. Amaglobeli is seen standing at far right. (Illustration: Ana Janelidze)

Press freedom groups condemn hearing, demand release of Georgian journalist Mzia Amaglobeli 

Batumi, Georgia, July 14, 2025一Monday’s court hearing in the case of Georgian journalist Mzia Amaglobeli shows the disproportionate and politicized nature of the charges against her and she must be released immediately, said three international press freedom organizations whose representatives monitored the proceedings.  In response to the hearing, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), International…

Read More ›

A Tunisian court on July 1, 2025, sentenced in absentia Ramla Dahmani (shown), the sister of imprisoned lawyer and political commentator Sonia Dahmani, to two years in prison on false news charges. (Photo: Courtesy of Ramla Dahmani)

Tunisia sentences sister in absentia for advocating for jailed journalist Sonia Dahmani

New York, July 9, 2025—CPJ urges Tunisian authorities to cease the prosecution of family members of journalists advocating for their release after a Tunis court on July 1 sentenced in absentia Ramla Dahmani, the sister of imprisoned lawyer and political commentator Sonia Dahmani, to two years in prison on false news charges.  “Tunisian authorities are…

Read More ›

Spanish-language journalist Mario Guevara (Screenshot: Fox 5 Atlanta/YouTube)

ICE defies court, says journalist Mario Guevara ‘not releasable’

Washington, D.C., July 7, 2025— The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities to respect an immigration court ruling and release on bail journalist Mario Guevara, a native of El Salvador who has been legally in the U.S. for the past 20 years. On Monday, ICE denied Guevara’s…

Read More ›

Atlanta-based Salvadoran journalist Mario Guevara ordered released from ICE custody

Atlanta, Georgia, July 1, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes Tuesday’s order to release journalist Mario Guevara, who was arrested while livestreaming a protest in an Atlanta suburb on June 14, from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody, on bond. Despite the court order for Guevara’s release, CPJ is concerned by the government lawyer’s argument…

Read More ›

CPJ's Lih Yi Beh hands a letter written by Frenchie Mae Cumpio, which she carried from the journalist's prison in the Philippines, to U.N. special envoy Irene Khan in Geneva on June 24, 2025.

‘A well-orchestrated lie’: Detained Philippine journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio tells UN

Geneva, June 27, 2025—A handwritten letter by journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio, who has been detained in the Philippines for more than five years without a conviction, was read out at the United Nations headquarters by U.N. special envoy Irene Khan, who called the 26-year-old’s prolonged detention “a travesty of justice.” It was the first time…

Read More ›

Hold the Line Coalition welcomes Maria Ressa and Rappler’s acquittal in foreign ownership case, urges closure of remaining case 

Manila, June 20, 2025—A Filipino court has acquitted Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Rappler CEO Maria Ressa, along with five Rappler directors, in a long-standing anti-dummy case. Filed in 2018 under the administration of former President Rodrigo Duterte, the case was based on the allegation that Rappler had violated constitutional restrictions on foreign ownership of…

Read More ›

Journalists in a press room watch Mikheil Kavelashvili, Georgia's newly elected president and leader of the Georgian Dream party, take the oath of office during his swearing-in ceremony at the parliament building in Tbilisi, on December 29, 2024. (Photo: AFP/Shlamov)

CPJ, partners call for an end to Georgia’s assault on media, repeal of new laws

The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 23 other press freedom and journalist organizations on June 17 in condemning Georgia’s deepening restrictions on the media, including several repressive new laws, and calling on the international community to pressure the ruling Georgian Dream party to end its suppression of the independent press. The statement warned that independent…

Read More ›

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio testifies at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on U.S. President Donald Trump's State Department budget request for the Department of State, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 21, 2025. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz

CPJ, partners call on Congress to reject proposed State Department reorganization plan

The Committee to Protect Journalists joined human rights partners in a June 13 statement calling on the U.S. Congress to reject Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s proposed reorganization of the State Department. Secretary Rubio’s proposed plan, announced in May, would drastically downsize the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL), which is responsible for documenting and responding…

Read More ›

Investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta in 2011.

CPJ, partners welcome 2 convictions for Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder

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…

Read More ›

In this photograph taken from southern Israel, smoke billows across destroyed buildings in the Gaza Strip during an Israeli bombing on May, 27, 2025. (Photo: AFP/Jack Guez)

CPJ and global media leaders call for urgent, unrestricted access to Gaza for journalists

New York, June 12, 2025—More than 200 global leaders of news and press freedom organizations called on world leaders, governments, and international institutions on Thursday to act immediately to ensure  journalists from outside Gaza are given immediate, independent access to the territory, in a letter coordinated by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Reporters…

Read More ›

More Press Releases »

Media Advisories »

Statements »

Letters »