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New York, October 31, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists urges authorities in Pakistan to swiftly investigate and prosecute the suspected killers of journalist Imtiaz Mir, who was allegedly murdered by a militant group in connection to his reporting on Israel. “Authorities in Pakistan must hold those responsible for killing Imtiaz Mir accountable and send a…

Almost three years after Ethiopia’s civil war ended, Tigray remains tense and dangerous for journalists, who have been shot at, detained, raided, and swept up in a local power struggle that could trigger renewed conflict. Ethiopian foreign minister Gedion Timothewos warned the United Nations this month that in the northern state of Tigray — the…

Berlin, October 20, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists urges the Italian authorities to swiftly identify and prosecute those responsible for a car bomb that targeted investigative journalist Sigfrido Ranucci on October 17, 2025. The explosive device detonated outside Ranucci’s home in Pomezia, south of Rome, destroying his car and damaging another family vehicle and the property’s gate, as seen here in a video. No…

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is renewing its urgent call for Israel to provide immediate, independent, and unrestricted international media access to Gaza. On October 5, 2025, CPJ took a decisive stand for press freedom by filing an amicus brief in support of the Foreign Press Association in Israel’s second petition to the Israeli…

Urgent, unrestricted media access critical to documentation of Israeli attacks on besieged territory   197 Palestinian journalists and media workers killed by Israel in two years New York, October 16, 2025 — The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has filed an amicus brief supporting the Foreign Press Association in Israel’s second petition to the Israeli Supreme…

On the eve of the anniversary of the murder of Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, CPJ joins 17 press freedom and journalists’ organizations to call on Malta to set up a national action plan on media freedom and journalist safety.  Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed in a car bomb attack on October 16, 2017….

Bangkok, October 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Vietnamese authorities to immediately and unconditionally release independent journalist Huynh Ngoc Tuan and cease harassing commentators for expressing critical views online. On October 7, police arrested Tuan at his home in Buon Ho town, Dak Lak province, according to news reports and CPJ’s email communication with his daughter,…

Washington, D.C., October 9, 2025 — The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled by the five-year prison sentence handed down to Egyptian economic commentator Abdel Khaleq Farouk, convicted of joining a terrorist organization, spreading false information, and misusing social media over articles critical of Egypt’s economic policies. Lawyer Nabih Al-Janadi, a member of Farouk’s defense…

New York, October 1, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Russian authorities to end the prosecution of Russian journalist Svetlana Khustik, who faces up to 10 years on charges of spreading “fake” information about Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and to release her immediately. On September 30, a court in the east-central city of Krasnoyarsk placed her under arrest for two months,…

Punishment of hard labor, censorship, and threats of demotion over more than three decades did not stop Chinese journalist Dong Yuyu from doing his work. It was lunch with a diplomat that finally did. Dong, 63, a long-time editor and columnist whose work is well known within China and abroad, was arrested in February 2022…