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Mexico City, June 3, 2026—Mexican authorities must immediately investigate the abduction of journalist Roxana Berenice Guzmán Rodríguez, establish the motive and ensure she is freed unharmed, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday.  Guzmán, the founder and editor of the Facebook-based news website Pulso Informativo del Sureste, was taken by unidentified armed men on Tuesday…

Miami, March 17, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists urges Haitian authorities to find and ensure the safe return of Haitian journalists Osnel Espérance and Junior Célestin, who were abducted Friday while reporting in the capital city Port-au-Prince, according to Haitian media outlets Le Nouvelliste and VantBef Info.  Espérance and Célestin, who work respectively for Uni…

New York, October 30, 2025 — The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply alarmed by reports emerging from El-Fasher in Sudan’s North Darfur state, which the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has captured in recent days, where journalists, media workers and other civilians are facing an unprecedented wave of violence and impunity.  Over the weekend,…

Dakar, October 7, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Guinean authorities to ensure that Elhadj Adama Keita, father of exiled Guinean journalist Mamoudou Babila Keita, is safely returned home, following his abduction by unidentified men. On September 29, two men grabbed 75-year-old Adama Keita by the neck and forced him into a pickup vehicle…

Nairobi, August 20, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply alarmed by the abduction of Ethiopian newspaper editor Yonas Amare, the arbitrary detention of journalist Khadar Mohamed Ismael, and the incommunicado detention of radio host Abdulsemed Mohammed.  On August 13, masked men reportedly wearing military uniforms abducted Yonas, who works with the privately owned Reporter newspaper, from…

Abuja, July 23, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Liberian authorities to ensure justice for journalist Alex Seryea Yormie, who was abducted for several hours and brutalized by members of a local traditional society in northeastern Nimba county.  On June 30, the men abducted Yormie while he was on his way back to the community-based Lar-Wehyi…

Kinshasa, April 21, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the mistreatment of Congolese journalist Émérite Amisi Musada, who was abducted by men in civilian clothes on April 15 after being threatened over his reporting on the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and calls for authorities to hold those responsible to account. Four…

New York, March 20, 2025—Pakistani authorities must immediately reveal the whereabouts of journalist Asif Karim Khehtran and the brothers of U.S.-based exiled Pakistani journalist Ahmad Noorani, and cease their intimidation of the press, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday. Around midnight on March 18, about two dozen individuals, identifying themselves as police, forcibly entered…

Nairobi, January 14, 2025– CPJ calls on the Kenyan government to conduct a comprehensive investigation after four unknown men assaulted and abducted prominent Tanzanian journalist and human rights activist Maria Sarungi Tsehai for about four hours on Sunday in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. “With attacks on dissidents living in exile in Nairobi and a…

Dakar, December 6, 2024—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Guinean authorities to investigate journalist Habib Marouane Camara’s whereabouts and ensure his safety after he was attacked and abducted on Tuesday by men in gendarme uniforms in Conakry, Guinea’s capital, according to local witnesses. “It’s been more than three days since armed men abducted journalist…