The Longest Wait: After 3 decades, 30 murdered journalists still have no justice
The Longest Wait: After 3 decades, 30 murdered journalists still have no justice An archival image of journalist Pedro Yauri (Photo: National Association of Journalists of Peru) The family of journalist Pedro Yauri holds a vigil for him in June 2019 to mark the 27th year of his 1992 murder in Huacho, Peru. (Photo: National…
‘If you scream no one will hear you’: Pakistani journalists report in fear amid spike in media killings
Hope for justice in journalist murders is dim across the world, but especially in Pakistan, which has appeared on CPJ’s Global Impunity Index every year since the list’s inception in 2008. This year, the South Asian country ranks twelfth out of the 13 worst offenders. CPJ’s impunity index lists countries where perpetrators who kill journalists…
Roberto Carlos Figueroa
Roberto Carlos Figueroa was found dead on April 26, 2024, inside his vehicle in Coajomulco, north of the Morelos state capital, Cuernavaca, some 25 miles south of Mexico City. Unidentified armed individuals abducted Figueroa that morning after he dropped his daughters off at school in Cuernavaca, according to news reports. Those reports said captors contacted his wife on at least…
Chained and blindfolded: Nigerian journalist Segun Olatunji recounts his detention
The arrest and detention of Segun Olatunji, the then-editor of the privately owned First News site, by Nigeria’s military in March triggered an outcry from local and international civil society, highlighting an uptick in the unlawful detention of journalists in the West African nation. Olatunji was taken from his Alagbado home in southwestern Lagos state by more than a dozen armed men who…
Fleeing prolonged media crackdown, Ethiopian journalists struggle in exile
When Belete Kassa’s friend and news show co-host Belaye Manaye was arrested in November 2023 and taken to the remote Awash Arba military camp known as the “Guantanamo of the desert,” Belete feared that he might be next. The two men co-founded the YouTube-based channel Ethio News in 2020, which had reported extensively on a conflict that…
Journalist missing after being seized outside his Pakistan home
New York, May 23, 2024 — Pakistan authorities must immediately reveal the whereabouts of freelance Kashmiri journalist Syed Farhad Ali Shah, who was taken from his home at night by unidentified men over a week ago, and stop intimidating the press, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday. At about 1 a.m. on May 15,…
Why the Israel-Gaza war has become more difficult to document
As the Israel-Gaza war enters its eighth month, CPJ’s ability to verify attacks on the press has slowed to a crawl. A feature published this week explains why the Israel-Gaza war has become more difficult to document. An unprecedented number of deaths, with more than 90 Palestinian journalists killed by Israeli forces since the start…
IDF assaulted, detained Al-Jazeera journalist in hospital raid
On Monday night, Al-Jazeera reporter Ismail Al-Ghoul was released by Israeli forces after being held for nearly 12 hours. In an interview with Al-Jazeera, Al-Ghoul recounted how he and several other journalists were assaulted by IDF soldiers, whom he said destroyed the journalists’ tent and damaged their equipment and press vehicles. Al-Ghoul said the journalists…
Armed men take Nigerian journalist Segun Olatunji from Lagos home
Abuja, March 21, 2024—The Nigerian military should swiftly and publicly account for the whereabouts of First News editor Segun Olatunji, who was taken by armed men identifying themselves as officers with the army, disclose any charges against him, and ensure his safety, said the Committee to Protect Journalists on Thursday. On March 15, around 15…
Haitian journalist Lucien Jura kidnapped as violence escalates in capital
Editor’s note: Since the publication of this report, Lucien Jura was released by kidnappers, his brother Erick Jura told CPJ on Thursday. Miami, March 20, 2024—The kidnappers of journalist Lucien Jura should release him immediately and not hold journalists as pawns, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday. Jura was abducted from his home in…