Patrice Booto
Security forces arrested Booto, publisher of the thrice-weekly Le Journal and its sister publication, Pool Malebo. Booto was detained at a police station in the capital, Kinshasa, according to the local press freedom organization Journaliste en Danger (JED). On November 10, Booto was transferred to the state security court, where he was charged the following…
Patrick Mugumya
Ugandan police arrested Patrick Mugumya, a co-owner and director of the privately owned media company Pepper Publications on November 21, 2017, alongside seven of his colleagues. Mugumya also serves as chief procurement officer with the company. The five directors, including Mugumya, who also co-own the company, and three editors with the company’s Red Pepper and…
Muftah al-Qatrani
Al-Qatrani was the director and owner of Al-Anwar, a privately owned media production company in the city of Benghazi. Friends of the 33-year-old journalist found his body in his office with gunshot wounds to the head, according to news reports and the local press freedom group the Libyan Center for Press Freedom. The Libyan Center…
Ardiansyah Matra’is
A rescue team found the body of Matra’is near the Gudang Arang River, two days after his family reported him missing in Merauke, a small town on the southern tip of Papua province, according to news reports. Matra’is, a reporter for the local broadcaster Merauke TV, had been covering plans for a large agribusiness development…
Patrick Kikuku Wilungula
Wilungula, 39, was gunned down near his home in Goma, North Kivu province, while returning home from a local conference on environmental protection, local journalists told CPJ. Wilungula was covering the conference as a freelance photojournalist. Eyewitnesses said the gunmen were wearing military uniforms and fled the scene with the journalist’s digital camera, leaving behind…
Dilip Mohapatra
Mohapatra, editor of the Oriya-language newspaper Aji Kagoj, disappeared on November 8. His body was discovered the next day on the side of the NH-42 national highway near the village of Bhagirathipur in the eastern state of Odisha (which at the time was known as Orissa) with his hands and legs tied and with a…
Journalist Patricia Kayuni assaulted while covering protest in Malawi
New York, January 14, 2019 — Malawian authorities should conduct a thorough and transparent investigation into the assault of journalist Patricia Kayuni and ensure that those responsible are held to account, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
Patrícia Campos Mello, Brazil
CPJ is honored to present its 2019 International Press Freedom Award to Brazilian journalist Patrícia Campos Mello. Patrícia Campos Mello is an award-winning reporter and columnist at the daily Folha de S. Paulo, one of Brazil’s biggest news outlets, and an experienced international correspondent. She has reported on human rights and public health stories in…