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Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama waves at his inauguration on January 7, 2025.

CPJ urges Ghana’s President Mahama to reverse impunity, improve press freedom

On his 100th day in office, the Committee to Protect Journalists urged Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama to ensure swift and conclusive investigations into cases of attacks against the press, to reform laws that criminalize journalism, and to protect journalists’ privacy. In its April 17 letter, CPJ requested Mahama to take steps to deliver justice…

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An image of the Facebook news site Despertar Occidental. Guatemalan community journalist Ismael Alonzo González, who worked for the publication for three years, was shot by unidentified assailants on March 21, 2025. (Screenshot: CPJ/Facebook)

Community journalist in Guatemala shot to death by unidentified assailants

Mexico City, April 15, 2025—Guatemalan authorities must investigate the killing of community journalist Ismael Alonzo González, determine whether he was targeted for his work, and bring those responsible to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Tuesday. On Friday, March 21, Alonzo was outside his home in the western city of Quetzaltenango when two unidentified…

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Sudanese journalist Ahmed Mohamed Saleh Sayyidna killed by shelling in El-Fasher

New York, April 14, 2025—Sudanese journalist Ahmed Mohamed Saleh Sayyidna was killed on Monday, April 14, in a shelling attack on El-Fasher, a city in North Darfur, amid ongoing fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), according to a statement by trade union  Sudanese Journalists Syndicate, and a…

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Palestinians inspect damage to a tent housing journalists after it was hit by an Israeli strike in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza on April 7, 2025. (Photo: Reuters/Hatem Khaled)

Israel strikes journalists’ tent in Gaza; 2 killed, 8 injured

New York, April 7, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists denounces Israel’s targeted airstrike that hit a media tent in southern Gaza on Monday, killing two journalists and injuring eight others, and calls on the international community to act to stop Israel killing Palestinian journalists. The airstrike on the tent housing journalists in the grounds of…

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Philippine journalist Juan Jumalon

No justice for slain Philippine journalist Juan Jumalon as suspects acquitted

Bangkok, April 4, 2025—Philippine prosecutors must redouble their efforts to locate, arrest, and convict those responsible for the fatal shooting of journalist Juan Jumalon while live broadcasting from his home-based radio station, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday. In a 33-page ruling dated March 18, Regional Trial Court Judge Michael Ajoc acquitted three suspects…

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Palestinians hold the body of journalist Hossam Shabat, who was killed by an Israeli strike, according to medics, in the northern Gaza Strip, on March 24, 2025.

CPJ denounces Israel’s killing of 2 more Gaza journalists in return to war

Beirut, March 24, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Monday’s killing in Gaza of Palestinian reporters Hossam Shabat and Mohammed Mansour by the Israel Defense Forces and calls for an independent international investigation into whether they were deliberately targeted. On March 24, deadly Israeli strikes hit the car of Qatari-based Al Jazeera Mubasher’s Shabat near…

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Delegates affiliated to Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) react during a meeting for the planned signing, later postponed, of a political charter that would provide for a "Government of Peace and Unity" to govern the territories the force controls in Nairobi, Kenya, February 18, 2025. REUTERS/Monicah Mwangi

Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces kill 3 state TV journalists and their driver in drone strike

New York, March 21, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Sudanese forces to ensure journalist safety following the killing of three Sudanese state television network journalists and their driver in a Friday morning drone strike carried out by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The journalists were reporting on the Sudanese Armed Forces’ (SAF) takeover…

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Screenshots from CCTV footage showing police arriving to Risaala Media Corporation’s offices in Mogadishu. (Screenshot: Risaala Media Corporation)

Somali journalist killed in Al-Shabaab bombing, at least 22 others arrested for reporting attack

Nairobi, March 20, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Somali authorities to investigate the killing of journalist Mohamed Abukar Dabashe in a March 18 bombing by the militant group Al Shabaab in the capital Mogadishu and allow journalists to do their jobs without fear of reprisal. “Mohamed Abukar Dabashe’s death is devastating. Unfortunately, he…

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Indian journalist shot dead after reporting on land scam

New Delhi, March 11, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Indian authorities to maintain full transparency in their investigation into the killing of journalist Raghvendra Bajpai, who was shot dead March 8 in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, and determine whether the journalist was targeted in connection with his work. “Authorities in Uttar…

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Patricio Aguilar

Journalist Patricio Aguilar shot and killed in Ecuador

Bogotá, March 6, 2025—Ecuadorian authorities must thoroughly investigate the March 4 killing of journalist Patricio Aguilar, determine if he was targeted for his work, and bring those responsible to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday.  “Ecuadorian authorities must not let the killing of journalist Patricio Aguilar go unpunished,” said Cristina Zahar, CPJ’s Latin…

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