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Mexico City, July 9, 2026—Mexican authorities must immediately and credibly investigate the killing of environmental journalist and content creator Manuel Alejandro Mora Serna and determine whether he was attacked in relation to his work as a reporter, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday. The Guerrero State Human Rights Commission (CDHEG) confirmed in a July…

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) joined family members, journalists and other press freedom organizations in Culiacán, the capital of the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa, to renew a call for justice in the murder of journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas. Valdez, a correspondent for Mexico City newspaper La Jornada and co-founder of weekly investigative magazine Ríodoce,…

Sharmelí Bustíos Patiño was only 14 when her father, 38-year-old Peruvian journalist Hugo Bustíos Saavedra, was killed on November 24, 1988, while covering the war between the Peruvian army and Shining Path fighters in a violent ambush near the town of Huanta. After nearly four decades of fighting to find her father’s killer, Sharmelí found justice in 2023…

Unprecedented crimes against journalists call for unprecedented actions The Committee to Protect Journalists called on October 30, 2025, for radical reform of the systems to investigate journalist killings and hold perpetrators to account, after the deadliest three years for journalists and media workers since CPJ began keeping records.  More than 125 journalists and media workers…

Mexico City, June 30, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Mexican authorities to swiftly and transparently complete its investigation into the June 23 killing of reporter Salomón Ordóñez Miranda so those responsible can be held to account. “The lethal attack that took Salomón Ordóñez’s life is a stark reminder of how little President Claudia…

Berlin, April 9, 2025—On the fourth anniversary of the assassination of veteran Greek crime reporter Giorgos Karaivaz, the Committee to Protect Journalists and six international media freedom and journalist organizations called for justice for “one of the most serious attacks on journalism in the European Union in recent years.” Karaivaz was fatally shot outside his…

As of June 11, 2026, CPJ’s preliminary investigations show that at least 263 journalists and media workers are among the more than tens of thousands killed across Gaza, Yemen, Lebanon, Israel and Iran since the Israel-Gaza war began on October 7, 2023, and the Iran war began on February 28, 2026. Israel’s disregard for the…

Washington, D.C., September 30, 2022 — The four years that have passed since Washington Post columnist and Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered and dismembered underscores the global failure to punish the killers of journalists around the world, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday. “Jamal Khashoggi will forever be a symbol of what it…

New York, December 2, 2021 – In a retrial today, the Higher Court in Belgrade convicted four former Serbian state security officers of the 1999 murder of journalist Slavko Ćuruvija, owner of the mass-circulation Dnevni Telegraf, Serbia’s first private daily, and the weekly magazine Evropljanin, independent regional news website Balkan Insight reported. Ćuruvija, 51, was…

Washington, D.C., July 15, 2021—In response to news that a jury in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, today ruled that the man who killed four Capital Gazette journalists and a media worker in 2018 is criminally responsible for his actions, the Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following statement: “While today’s ruling can bring only limited…