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Prominent Serbian minority newspaper receives threatening letter with white powder

Berlin, February 11, 2025—Croatian authorities must swiftly investigate the recent threat to the staff of weekly newspaper Novosti, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Tuesday, after the country’s most prominent Serbian minority newspaper received a letter containing a suspicious powder and referencing a deadly nerve agent. “Croatian authorities must spare no effort in bringing all…

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Attacks, arrests, threats, censorship: The high risks of reporting the Israel-Gaza war

Since the Israel-Gaza war began on October 7, 2023, journalists and media across the region have faced a hostile environment that has made reporting on the war exceptionally challenging.   In addition to documenting the growing tally of journalists killed and injured, CPJ’s research has found multiple kinds of incidents of journalists being targeted while carrying…

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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 police officer guards the funeral site of Mexican journalist Alejandro Martinez Noguez in Celaya City, Mexico, on August 5, 2024. Unidentified attackers shot and killed another reporter, Calletano de Jesús Guerrero, in Teoloyucan on January 17, 2024. (Photo: AFP/Mario Armas)

Mexican journalist under federal protection shot dead 

Mexico City, January 24, 2025—Unidentified attackers shot and killed reporter Calletano de Jesús Guerrero while he was in the parking lot of the San Antonio de Padua parish church in Teoloyucan, a town 25 miles north of Mexico City, on Friday, January 17. Guerrero, 57, had been under federal protection since 2014 because of threats…

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Singapore's Foreign Minister K. Shanmugam McCully addresses the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters on Monday, Sept. 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Singapore ministers threaten legal action against media outlets, government demands ‘corrections’

New York, January 10, 2025— Singapore Minister for Manpower Tan See Leng and Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam should withdraw threats of legal action against media outlets over their public interest reporting, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday. “The threats of legal action by Singapore ministers against media outlets, as well as…

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Sri Lankan journalist Murukaiya Thamilselvan

Sri Lankan journalist narrowly escapes kidnap after crime reports

New York, January 9, 2025—Sri Lankan authorities must conduct a swift and impartial investigation into the December 26 assault and attempted kidnapping of Murukaiya Thamilselvan, a freelance journalist of Sri Lanka’s ethnic Tamil minority, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday. “Sri Lankan authorities must take immediate steps to ensure the safety of journalist Murukaiya…

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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks to House Republicans at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Washington, D.C. on November 13, 2024. Trump has filed several legal actions against journalists and news outlets, the latest against the Des Moines Register for publishing an election poll that showed him trailing Vice President Kamala Harris. (Photo: AFP-Pool/Allison Robbert)

Trump steps up actions against press with Des Moines Register lawsuit

Washington, D.C., December 18, 2024–The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns President-elect Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Des Moines Register and Gannett, which was filed on Monday, for publishing a poll that showed him trailing Vice President Kamala Harris in the run-up to the November presidential election.  The lawsuit, which also includes pollster J. Ann Selzer…

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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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Journalist Berat Buzhala, founder of the online media outlet Nacionale, received a death threat on December 2 via Facebook messenger. (Photo: Valdrin Xhemaj)

Kosovo journalist Berat Buzhala, Nacionale newsroom receive death threat

Berlin December 5, 2024—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Kosovo authorities to ensure the safety of journalist Berat Buzhala, founder of the online media outlet Nacionale, following a December 2 death threat he received via Facebook messenger threatening his safety and his colleagues’. “We welcome the Kosovo authorities’ swift investigation into a death threat…

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Italian investigative team receives death threat referencing Charlie Hebdo attack

Berlin, November 15, 2024—The editorial team of the investigative television program “Report” on Italian public broadcaster RAI3 received a death threat via social media on Tuesday, November 12, saying the team “deserved it, Charlie Hebdo editorial team style,” following their reporting on the Israel-Gaza war.  The message referenced a 2015 terrorist attack targeting the offices…

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