PRESS FREEDOM

CPJ, Partners Urge Guinea-Bissau To Improve Press Freedom Ahead Of UN Review

By Committee to Protect Journalists Photos: Reporters Without Borders\YouTube Screenshots The Committee to Protect Journalists joined two other press freedom organizations in calling on ...

Forced To Flee: Exiled Journalists Remain Unsafe

By Committee To Protect Journalists Photos: CPJ\YouTube Screenshots Threats, repression, conflict, and unrest: across the world, these and other factors are pushing journalists into ...

CPJ Welcomes Newsroom And Human Rights Leaders To Board Of Directors

By Committee To Protect Journalists Photos: CPJ\YouTube Screenshots New York, March 12, 2024—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) announced on Thursday the addition of ...

Press Freedom: News Outlets Express Solidarity With Journalists Under Fire In Gaza

By Committee To Protect Journalists Photos: YouTube Screenshots New York, February 29, 2024—The leaders of more than 30 news organizations from across the world, ...

Press Freedom: Ethiopian Authorities Arrest Alpha Media Founder Bekalu Alamrew

Photos: YouTube Screenshots Durban, South Africa—Ethiopian authorities must immediately release journalist Bekalu Alamrew, founder and chief editor of Alpha Media, a YouTube-based news channel, ...

Ethiopian authorities to unconditionally release Bekalu Alamrew

Ethiopia Detains Two Journalists In Ongoing Media Crackdown

Photos: YouTube\Alpha TV\Roha TV Nairobi, June 3, 2022– The Committee to Protect Journalists on Friday called on Ethiopian authorities to unconditionally release Bekalu Alamrew ...

Ethiopian authorities should immediately release all recently arrested journalists and media workers

Ethiopian Authorities Arrest 11 Employees Of 4 Independent Media Outlets

Photos: YouTube\Twitter Ethiopian authorities should immediately release all recently arrested journalists and media workers and ensure that authorities cease harassing members of the press, ...

Senegalese authorities should drop their prosecution of journalist Pape Malick Thiam

Senegalese Police Beat Journalist Then Charged Him With Contempt

Photo: TTY\Facebook Dakar, April 19, 2022 — Senegalese authorities should drop their prosecution of journalist Pape Malick Thiam, ensure he can work free of ...

U.S. government’s inaugural Summit for Democracy

US Summit For Democracy Must Address Threats To Press Freedom

Photo: International IDEA New York, December 8, 2021—On the eve of the U.S. government’s inaugural Summit for Democracy, the Committee to Protect Journalists reiterated ...

imprisonment of blogger, and former Scottish diplomat Craig Murray is causing concern among press freedom advocates.

Jailing of British Blogger Should Worry All Journalists

Photo: Craig Murray Justice Campaign The recent imprisonment of blogger, and former British diplomat Craig Murray is causing concern among press freedom advocates. In ...