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A beach in Casablanca in July 2012. Moroccan police on February 23, 2018 arrested Taoufik Bouachrine, a columnist and the publisher of Akhbar al-Youm, at the newspaper's headquarters in Casablanca. (Reuters/Youssef Boudlal)

Critical Moroccan journalist arrested on several charges

February 27, 2018 5:25 PM EST

Moroccan police on February 23, 2018 arrested Taoufik Bouachrine, a columnist and the publisher of Akhbar al-Youm, at the newspaper’s headquarters in Casablanca on charges including human trafficking, sexual assault, rape, prostitution, and harassment, according to his lawyers, outlets, and news reports.

Honduras' President Juan Orlando Hernandez at a construction site in Tegucigalpa, Honduras in January 2018. An unidentified man with a knife attempted to attack journalist César Omar Silva on February 13 amid ongoing political unrest in Honduras following the reelection of President Juan Orlando Hernández and a subsequent security crackdown, according to reports. (Reuters/Edgard Garrido)

Attacker tries to stab Honduran journalist during live broadcast

February 16, 2018 12:03 PM EST

New York, February 16, 2018–Honduran authorities should take swift action to identify and bring to justice the man who attempted to stab television reporter César Omar Silva during a live broadcast, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

Sudan arrests journalists, confiscates papers for reporting on inflation protests

January 18, 2018 3:46 PM EST

New York, January 18, 2017–Sudanese authorities should cease harassing and arresting journalists and confiscating newspapers, and should allow journalists to report on matters of public interest without fear of reprisal, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

A poster, pictured in Cairo in October 2017, calls for President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to run in elections. Egypt's March vote will be held while the state of emergency is still in place. (Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh)

Ahead of March elections, Egypt extends state of emergency and tightens censorship

By Marwa Morgan/CPJ Middle East and North Africa Program Intern on January 12, 2018 4:04 PM EST

The New York Times reported this week that Egypt ordered a criminal investigation into the paper over its report alleging that an intelligence officer told several TV hosts they should persuade viewers to accept President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The investigation comes in the same week that Egypt’s parliament voted…

A Syrian militant group in Idlib is holding media activists Hossam Mahmoud and Amjed al-Maleh captive along with two other people taken at the same time. (SCM)

Syrian militia hold two media activists in Idlib

January 11, 2018 4:23 PM EST

The Syrian militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham took captive two media activists, Hossam Mahmoud and Amjed al-Maleh, in the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib in December 2017, according to news reports, the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression, and the Syrian Journalists’ Association.

Pakistani journalist Taha Siddiqui, who escaped a kidnapping attempt, waits to be taken to the hospital after he made a statement to police in Rawalpindi, Pakistan January 10, 2018. (Reuters/Caren Firouz)

Pakistani journalist Taha Siddiqui escapes kidnapping attempt

January 10, 2018 5:04 PM EST

New York, January 10, 2018–The Committee to Protect Journalists urges Pakistani authorities to investigate today’s attempted abduction of journalist Taha Siddiqui, and prosecute the perpetrators.

Nigerian journalist Timothy Elombah, pictured, is detained over an article that he says he didn't write. (Family handout)

Nigerian journalist detained over critical article he didn’t write

January 8, 2018 2:53 PM EST

Lomé, January 8, 2018–Nigerian authorities should immediately release Timothy Elombah, editor of the news website Elombah, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Security forces arrested the journalist at his home in Nnewi, a city in Anambra state, on January 1, 2018, according to his lawyer, Obunike Ohaegbu, and media reports.

Bangladeshi journalists cover proceedings outside a Dhaka court in May 2016. The country's vaguely worded defamation law is creating a climate of self censorship, local reporters say. (AP/A.M. Ahad)

Bangladesh’s defamation law is ‘avenue to misuse power,’ local journalists say

By Aliya Iftikhar/CPJ Asia Research Associate on December 8, 2017 1:07 PM EST

It started with a Facebook post about a goat and ended in a day in jail for Bangladeshi journalist Abdul Latif Morol, when a fellow journalist filed a defamation complaint against him.

A vigil for Daphne Caruana Galizia, outside Malta House in London, calls for justice in the case of the murdered investigative journalist. (Reporters Without Borders)

CPJ joins vigil calling for justice in Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder

By No Archive on November 2, 2017 4:38 PM EDT

Today, on the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, CPJ joined with other international press freedom groups to condemn the murder last month of Daphne Caruana Galizia, an investigative journalist from Malta.

Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of September 3, 2017

By Özgür Öğret/CPJ Turkey Representative on September 6, 2017 12:42 PM EDT

Columnist’s passport returned Turkish authorities on September 7 returned Aslı Erdoğan, a former advisory board member of the shuttered pro-Kurdish daily Özgür Gündem and a frequent columnist, her passport, according to the Hürriyet Daily News website, which cites Erdoğan’s lawyer.