January 19, 2025 – Russia – In January 2025, Karelian journalist and poet Denis Pogrebnoy was fined 30,000 rubles (around €290) by the Petrozavodsk City Court […]
January 19, 2025 – Palestine/Israel – Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces detained an Al Jazeera crew—including veteran journalist Givara Budeiri, a cameraperson, and another team member—while […]
January 19, 2025 – India – Journalist Bijaya Kumar Pradhan was brutally assaulted in Kulthipali village, Balangir district, Odisha, while investigating alleged corruption related to the […]
January 19, 2025 – Palestine/Israel – According to the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, 193 journalists were killed by Israeli forces in Gaza throughout 2024, marking one of […]
January 19, 2025 – Niger – Nigerien journalist Seyni Amadou, editor-in-chief of Canal 3 TV, was arrested following the broadcast of a satirical news segment criticizing […]
January 19, 2025 – China – In July 1967, British journalist Anthony Grey, then the Reuters correspondent in Beijing, was placed under house arrest by Chinese […]
January 19, 2025 – Ukraine/Russia – In 2024, Russian forces escalated their assault on media freedom in Ukraine, killing 24 Ukrainian media workers and committing over […]
January 19, 2025 – Turkey – On January 19, 2007, Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was assassinated in front of his newspaper Agos in Istanbul. The 52-year-old […]
January 19, 2025 – Nigeria – In two disturbing events highlighting Nigeria’s infrastructure and security crises, residents in Aba, Abia State, experienced a sudden blackout after […]