January 31, 2025 – France/Sahel – Olivier Dubois, a French journalist specializing in the Sahel region, endured 711 days in captivity after being kidnapped by Islamic […]
January 31, 2025 – USA – A Colorado state lawmaker is facing widespread criticism after publicly calling for the arrest of two 9NEWS journalists in a […]
January 31, 2025 – Afghanistan – Sayed Rahim Saeedi, a 57-year-old Afghan filmmaker and director of ANAR Media, was sentenced to three years in prison by […]
January 31, 2025 – India – The Supreme Court dismissed journalist Rupesh Kumar Singh’s plea for bail, upholding the Jharkhand High Court’s December 6, 2023, decision. […]
January 30, 2025 – Egypt – Egypt continues its harsh campaign against journalists and activists, employing systematic repression to silence dissent and control the flow of […]
January 30, 2025 – Sudan – Freelance journalist Mubarak Musa Juma was killed during an armed attack in El Fasher, Northern Darfur, Sudan. He contributed to […]
January 30, 2025 – Afghanistan – Zia Danesh, a former Afghan journalist and government official, narrowly escaped his homeland after receiving chilling threats from the Taliban—“This […]
January 30, 2025 – Ukraine – Three journalists—Ukrainian freelance reporter Petro Chumakov, Swiss CH Media correspondent Kurt Pelda, and freelance camera operator Josef Zehnder—were detained by Ukrainian military personnel near Sudzha, a […]
January 30, 2025 – Russia/UK – The Society of Editors and News Media Association (NMA) has strongly condemned a Russian court’s decision on January 30, 2025, to […]