January 16, 2025 – Venezuela – Venezuelan authorities released prominent free speech advocate Carlos Correa, director of the NGO Espacio Público, after nine days in detention. […]
January 12, 2025 – Italy/Iran – In a delicate diplomatic maneuver, Italy released Iranian businessman Mohammad Abedini on January 12, 2025, just days after Tehran freed […]
December 24, 2024 – Haiti – armed gang members attacked journalists and police at the reopening ceremony of Port-au-Prince’s State University Hospital (HUEH). The attempt to […]
December 12, 2024 – Palestine – Media freedom organizations and press coalitions have sharply condemned Israel following the deaths of dozens of journalists covering the Gaza […]
December 12, 2024 – Palestine – Gaza has emerged as the deadliest region in the world for journalists in 2024, marking an unprecedented level of danger […]
November 26, 2024 – Russia/Ukraine – The Leninsky District Court in Kursk, Russia, issued an arrest warrant for France 24 journalist Catherine Norris Trent, accusing her of […]
November 21, 2024 – China – Selina Cheng, a veteran journalist and recently elected chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA), is suing the Wall […]
March 29, 2024 – Russia – Four Russian journalists have been sentenced to five and a half years in prison for allegedly promoting “extremist” activity linked […]