Iryna Danylovych
Ukrainian freelance journalist Iryna Danylovych is serving a prison sentence of six years and 11 months after being convicted by a Crimean court of illegally handling explosives. Russian authorities detained in Ukraine’s Crimea her in April 2022. She was initially sentenced to seven years in prison in December 2022, but the term was reduced by…
Russia detains Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on espionage charges
On Thursday, Russian authorities said they had detained Wall Street Journal reporter and U.S. citizen Evan Gershkovich in the city of Yekaterinburg. Later that day, a Moscow court ordered Gershkovich to be placed under arrest until May 29 on charges of spying for the U.S. government. The FSB security service accused the journalist of collecting…
Sevgil Musaieva, Ukraine
CPJ is honored to present its 2022 International Press Freedom Award to Ukrainian journalist Sevgil Musaieva. Sevgil Musaieva is editor-in-chief of Ukrainska Pravda, Ukraine’s leading independent online newspaper covering politics, economics, and culture – and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. After Russia started its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Musaieva mobilized her team to…
‘No other option to survive’: After one year of war, Ukrainian journalists are equipped for the long haul
In January, Ukrainian photojournalist Anton Skyba rushed to the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine to report on a town near the front line, Chasiv Yar. He came prepared. In a phone call with CPJ, he ticked off the items in his suitcase: personal protective equipment, including a helmet and an individual first aid kit with a chest patch “for…
Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense cancels accreditation of Danish journalist Matilde Kimer
Paris, December 22, 2022—Ukrainian authorities should reverse their decision to cancel the accreditation of Danish journalist Matilde Kimer and let her work freely in Ukraine, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday. On Monday, December 19, Danish public broadcaster, DR, reported that its reporter Matilde Kimer was stripped of her accreditation with Ukraine’s Ministry of…
Vilen Temeryanov
Russian authorities have detained journalist Vilen Temeryanov, a correspondent for the human rights group Crimean Solidarity and the independent news website Grani, since August 2022 on terrorism charges. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in jail. On August 11, 2022, officers with the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) in the village of Vilne,…
Iryna Danilovich
Russian authorities have detained freelance journalist Iryna Danilovich since April 2022 on charges of illegally handling explosives. If convicted, she faces up to eight years in jail. On the morning of April 29, 2022, Danilovich failed to return home from her work at a medical center in the village of Vladyslavivka, in Russian-occupied Crimea. At…
Latvian regulator cancels broadcasting permit for exiled Russian broadcaster Dozhd TV
Paris, December 8, 2022 — Latvian authorities must reverse their decision to cancel the broadcasting permit of independent broadcaster Dozhd TV (TV Rain), the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday. On Tuesday, December 6, the Latvian National Electronic Mass Media Council (NEPLP), the country’s media regulator, canceled the outlet’s broadcasting authorization “due to a threat…
Shanghai police target foreign journalists covering anti-lockdown protests
Foreign journalists have been detained and beaten while covering demonstrations in China against the government’s stringent COVID-19 policies, which have been blamed for interfering with firefighters’ efforts to rescue victims of a deadly apartment building fire. On November 27, Shanghai police assaulted Edward Lawrence, a journalist for British public broadcaster BBC, while he was covering…