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Jakarta, June 11, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the repeated harassment of Indonesian news site Floresa following its coverage of an investigative documentary about deforestation in Papua province caused by aggressive agribusiness expansion. On June 5, a Floresa journalist discovered three rotten chicken heads outside the outlet’s office in Labuan Bajo, East Nusa Tenggara,…

Brussels, June 11, 2026—Ahead of a meeting with Hungarian officials on June 16, the Committee to Protect Journalists urges European Union member states to encourage Prime Minister Péter Magyar’s new government to rebuild the national media landscape by fully aligning future reforms with EU law and recommendations.  Magyar’s Tisza party won April elections, ousting Viktor…

New York, June 10, 2026 —The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Azerbaijan to drop charges against journalists and other individuals associated with leading independent news outlet Toplum TV after prosecutors on June 8 requested prison terms of up to 16 years on charges related to receipt and use of foreign funds. “The outrageous prison…

Dakar, 10 June 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Comorian authorities to release journalist Toufé Maecha who was arrested on Monday at his home in the capital, Moroni, over his reports in La Gazette des Comores about the ill-health of a jailed former president. “Comoros authorities should refrain from cavalierly arresting journalists for their…

London, June 9, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the conviction of two Romanian men found guilty of wounding journalist Pouria Zeraati in London in 2024 in a carefully planned attack that prosecutors said was linked to the Iranian state. Zeraati, a prominent news presenter for the Persian-language broadcaster Iran International, was stabbed three times…

Berlin, June 9, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes that Polish prosecutors are preparing for a new trial in the 1992 disappearance and presumed murder of investigative journalist Jarosław Ziętara, after a court recently transferred the case to national prosecutors in Krakow for further evidence-gathering. Hearing dates have yet to be announced. On May 25,…

Bogotá, June 8, 2026—Colombian authorities must swiftly investigate the killing of journalist and press freedom advocate Cristian Herrera Nariño, determine if he was targeted for his work, and bring those responsible to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday. On Saturday, June 6, gunmen on a motorcycle shot Herrera outside his home in the northwest…

When Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama took office in January 2025, pledging to restore “an era of true media freedom,” journalists had reason to hope that attacks on the press would be taken more seriously than before. But during Mahama’s tenure, CPJ has documented eight separate incidents in which at least 17 journalists were attacked…

The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 14 other press freedom and human rights organizations on Monday, expressing concern over Egypt’s failure to show meaningful progress on human rights, democracy, or the rule of law, despite the European Union presenting such progress as a key condition of the €5 billion (US$5.75 billion) macro-financial assistance (MFA) package…

New York, June 5, 2026—Russian authorities must immediately release journalist Aleksey Seregin and stop silencing independent voices in the country, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Friday. On June 4, law enforcement officers in Yoshkar-Ola, the capital of Mari El Republic in western Russia, detained Seregin after beating him, confiscating his phone, and searching his…