August 21, 2025 – USA – On August 20, 2025, federal immigration agents clashed violently with demonstrators outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office […]
August 21, 2025 – USA/Palestine – A group of 17 United States Senators has formally urged Secretary of State Marco Rubio to press the Israeli government […]
August 20, 2025 – Chile/Peru – Olfran Domingo Rivas Ramos, alias “Pancho,” has been apprehended in Santiago, Chile, as a suspect in the January 20 assassination […]
August 20, 2025 – Palestine – In his August 20, 2025, commentary, freelance journalist Dario Sabaghi exposes how recent strikes on media workers in Gaza—most notably […]
August 20, 2025 – USA – Veteran Boston journalist Lisa Hughes, a longtime anchor at WBZ-TV (CBS Boston), has filed a $4 million lawsuit against CBS, […]
August 20, 2025 – Sri Lanka/India – Tamil photojournalist and human rights defender Kanapathipillai Kumanan, based in Sri Lanka’s Northern Province, has become the focal point […]
August 20, 2025 – Iraq/Kurdistan – Investigative journalist Sherwan Sherwani, formerly editor of Bashur magazine and known for reporting on corruption in Iraqi Kurdistan, received yet […]
Source: CPJ – Nairobi, August 20, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply alarmed by the abduction of Ethiopian newspaper editor Yonas Amare, the arbitrary detention […]