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Investigative journalist Héctor de Mauleón was ordered on May 15, 2025, to take down a column that mentioned corruption allegations against a female judicial candidate. (Screenshot: YouTube/Latinus)

Female politicians use meritless lawsuits to censor journalists in Mexico, lawyer says

Mexico City, May 29, 2025—Mexican journalist Héctor de Mauleón will be watching Sunday’s historic judicial elections with interest — not simply because June 1 marks the first time that Mexicans get to vote for their judges but also because one of the candidates has barred him from reporting critically about her. On May 15, the…

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Ahmad Noorani

Pakistani journalist’s YouTube channel blocked, under investigation in drive against exiled media

New York, May 16, 2025—Pakistani authorities must immediately restore access to exiled investigative journalist Ahmad Noorani’s YouTube channel in Pakistan and stop law enforcement agencies harassing him and his family, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday. “Blocking journalist Ahmad Noorani’s YouTube channel and filing a criminal case against him is indicative of Pakistan’s relentless…

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An Indian security personnel stands guard on a street, following clashes between India and Pakistan, in Srinagar, Kashmir May 9, 2025.

The Wire’s website, 8,000 X accounts blocked in India amid conflict with Pakistan

New Delhi, May 9, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the nationwide block on access to The Wire independent news site as the latest act of media censorship following a militant attack on tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir last month.     “Facts must not be the casualty in any conflict,” said Beh Lih Yi, CPJ’s Asia program…

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YouTube channel blocked, journalist assaulted, commentators charged after Kashmir attack in India

New Delhi, May 6, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply alarmed by a series of incidents in India involving the silencing, assault, and legal harassment of journalists and political commentators following the April 22 deadly attack in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir that left 26 tourists dead. “CPJ urges Indian authorities to ensure that responses…

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President Donald Trump is seen leaving Trump International Golf Club on March 15, 2025, in West Palm Beach, Fla. CPJ has called on congressional leaders to support the agency funding Voice of America and Radio Free outlets after Trump signed an executive order on March 14 that decimated those groups. (Photo: AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

‘Reward to dictators’: CPJ stands with thousands of journalists harmed by Trump’s dismantling of VOA, Radio Free outlets

The Committee to Protect Journalists stands in support of thousands of journalists and millions of citizens around the world impacted by President Donald Trump’s dismantling Voice of America’s (VOA) staff and termination of funding to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and Radio Free Asia (RFA). CPJ condemns a Trump executive order issued Friday that resulted…

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FILE - Hinds County Chancery Judge Crystal Wise Martin listens to lawyer Rob McDuff, an attorney for Parents For Public Schools, during a hearing in Jackson, Miss., Aug. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

CPJ: Mississippi judge’s order to remove editorial raises First Amendment concerns

Washington, D.C., February 20, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by a Mississippi judge’s order that the Clarksdale Press Register, a weekly newspaper, remove an editorial from its website criticizing city officials.  “A Mississippi judge’s decision to compel The Clarksdale Press Register to remove an editorial raises serious concerns about a violation of the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment,”…

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An Afghan money changer holding banknotes speaks with a customer at a currency exchange market in Kabul in January, following the decline in the afghani currency against US dollars.

Taliban ban domestic political and economic broadcasts in Afghanistan

New York, February 14, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the Taliban to reverse Thursday’s ban on the broadcast of political and economic programs by domestic Afghan outlets. The Ministry of Information and Culture issued a verbal directive to media executives in the capital Kabul on February 13, stating that organizations may only address…

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Journalists covering eastern DRC conflict face death threats, censorship

Kinshasa, January 30, 2025—The M23 rebel group’s assault on the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s eastern city of Goma has brought familiar dangers for Congolese journalists, who for years have navigated intimidation and attacks from government and armed groups in the country’s restive, mineral-rich east. Advances by the M23, which United Nations experts say is…

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A relative mourns over the body of one of five Palestinian journalists killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City's Al-Aqsa Hospital on December 26, 2024.

CPJ calls on EU to ensure media access and justice after Gaza ceasefire

Brussels, January 24, 2025–European Union officials and foreign ministers must seize the opportunity provided by the Gaza ceasefire at January 27’s Foreign Affairs Council meeting to ensure that a free press can prevail, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday. CPJ urges the EU to call for independent investigations into the deliberate targeting of journalists…

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Bypassing the ‘Taliban firewall’: How an exile newsroom reports on Afghan women

Faisal Karimi and Wahab Siddiqi, respectively founder and editor-in-chief of the Afghanistan Women’s News Agency, were among the first journalists to flee Afghanistan after the Taliban retook control of the country in August 2021. After escaping the country undetected with nearly two dozen newsroom colleagues and family members a week after the fall of Kabul,…

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