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Miami, November 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned about the reported arson attack on independent radio station Radio Émancipation, the fifth such attack on a station in the last six months, and calls on the Haitian government to establish conditions in the country that allow journalists, and citizens more broadly, to work safely without…

Berlin, November 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Serbian authorities to urgently investigate three incidents in which journalists were attacked or intimidated by what appeared to be pro-government supporters near the National Assembly in Belgrade.  On November 3, four men, three of them masked, assaulted private news agency FoNet reporter Marko Čonjagić around 11 p.m. as he covered a rally linked to the…

Ahead of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s planned visit to Washington on November 18, 2025, the Committee to Protect Journalists and 10 other human rights and press freedom organizations released a joint statement calling on the U.S. government, including Congress, to address Saudi Arabia’s human rights abuses. The statement noted that this will be…

The Committee to Protect Journalists and partner organizations expressed strong support on Thursday for independent journalists in Hungary and highlighted the country’s escalating media freedom crisis following a one-day mission to Budapest on October 22. In meetings with journalists, media representatives, legal experts, and civil society, the delegation heard concerns about a severely restricted media…

Dakar, November 7, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Nigerien authorities to free journalists Ibro Chaibou, Youssouf Sériba, and Oumarou Abou Kané who were remanded in southern Niger’s Kollo prison on November 3. The three were initially arrested on October 30 and are accused of sending an invitation to a government news conference to…

New York, November 7, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists and partners welcomed a Philippine court’s decision to quash the murder charges against community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio and called on authorities to drop all remaining charges against her. The 26-year-old journalist has been held in detention for nearly six years since her arrest in February 2020 on charges of…

Paris, November 7, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Iranian authorities to immediately release editor and economist Parviz Sedaghat and halt their escalating campaign against journalists, academics, and writers commenting on social and economic injustices. Sedaghat, editor-in-chief of Naghde Eqtesad Siyasi (Political Economy Critique), an independent platform that publishes critical essays on the economy…

New York, November 6, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) will hold its 35th annual International Press Freedom Awards in New York on Thursday, November 20, 2025. The organization will recognize five journalists from China, Ecuador, Kyrgyzstan, and Tunisia at this year’s ceremony. David McCraw, the New York Times’ lead newsroom lawyer, will receive the…

Lusaka, November 4, 2025—The Swazi Bridge news site in Eswatini is facing a record-breaking claim for 170 million emalangeni (US$9.8 million) in damages and the threat of terrorism investigations, as part of a growing global trend of using abusive lawsuits to suppress public interest reporting. The Farmers Bank and its director John Asfar alleged defamation…

Nazareth, November 4, 2025—Israeli police banned at least 10 Palestinian journalists from Jerusalem’s disputed Al-Aqsa Mosque compound during Ramadan this year, CPJ has found, in what many view as a deliberate effort to censor coverage of the holy site. Intimidatory tactics against the press have increased in the two years since the start of the…