Prominent Turkish journalist İsmail Saymaz under house arrest for 2013 interviews
Istanbul, March 24, 2025—Turkish authorities should immediately cancel the house arrest of award-winning investigative journalist and writer İsmail Saymaz over his reporting on the 2013 Gezi Park protests and stop using the judiciary to muzzle the press, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday. On March 19, police took Saymaz, a freelance journalist and TV…
Ghanaian journalists attacked by military, illegal miners in separate incidents
Abuja, March 24, 2025–The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Ghanaian authorities to investigate and hold accountable military officers and suspected illegal miners accused of attacking a total of five journalists in separate incidents. “It is concerning that military officers accused of attacking journalists have not been held to account,” said Angela Quintal, CPJ’s Africa regional…
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…
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…
Pig’s head, rats sent to Indonesian news outlet as president attacks foreign-funded media
Editor’s note: Three days later on March 22, cleaners at the news outlet Tempo found a box of six rats with their heads cut off, in another incident that the publication called an “act of terror.” New York, March 21, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the harassment of Indonesia’s leading independent news outlet, Tempo, after a…
Pakistan authorities detain Raftar founder Farhan Mallick in Karachi
Editor’s note: On March 24, FIA officials raided Raftar’s office and seized Farhan Mallick’s work computer and USB drives, according to a post on X by the media outlet, which called the raid a direct assault on independent journalism. New York, March 21, 2025—Pakistani authorities must immediately and unconditionally release journalist Farhan Mallick, detained in Karachi Thursday by…
CPJ, partners condemn spate of attacks on journalists in Bangladesh
The Committee to Protect Journalists on March 21 joined eight other civil society organizations in expressing alarm over violence against the media and human rights defenders in Bangladesh, with at least 17 journalists attacked in February. An interim government took power in Bangladesh following the ouster of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in August. The…
Haitian gangs set fire to 3 Port-au-Prince radio stations as violence escalates
Miami, March 20, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the arson attacks on at least three TV and radio stations in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince over the last week, as escalating gang violence has caused widescale destruction. Between March 12 and 13, armed gangs from the Viv Ansanm (Living Together) coalition attacked independent stations…
Exiled Pakistani journalist’s brothers ‘abducted,’ another journalist disappears
New York, March 20, 2025—Pakistani authorities must immediately reveal the whereabouts of journalist Asif Karim Khehtran and the brothers of U.S.-based exiled Pakistani journalist Ahmad Noorani, and cease their intimidation of the press, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday. Around midnight on March 18, about two dozen individuals, identifying themselves as police, forcibly entered…
Brazilian reporter’s personal information, photos leaked following investigative work
São Paulo, March 20, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Brazilian authorities to swiftly and comprehensively investigate the leaking of UOL news journalist Thiago Herdy’s personal information and photos online following his investigative series on alleged emergency works contract irregularities in the municipality of São Paulo. “It is clear that posting details of Thiago Herdy’s private life on…