Across Africa, 12 countries were keeping at least 75 journalists behind bars as of 1 December ― not counting those who were detained and released
Self-censorship is rife as journalists are fined for stories that criticise royals or big business
Hopewell Chin’ono recently published a series of Facebook posts that outline alleged connections between President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s son and a company that was awarded tender to supply equipment to prevent the spread of Covid-19
Independent media is under threat as authorities harass and threaten journalists
One of Mozambique’s most senior journalists escaped a kidnapping attempt in Maputo on New Year’s Eve. Matias Guente, the executive editor of Canal de Moçambique, was accosted in the afternoon of December 31 by three men while in the capital’s Alto Maé area, right behind the headquarters of the Mozambique Defence Armed Forces. The men […]
It’s official: Eritrea is the world’s most censored country. This is one journalist’s account of what it is like to work there
CPJ has documented a deeply troubling erosion of press freedom in several member states, including attacks on journalists
Maxence Melo Mubyazi is one of five recipients of the 2019 International Press Freedom Award.
2019’s first recorded death of a journalist happened in Accra in mid-January
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The Committee to Protect Journalists said 34 of the 53 journalists killed on duty this year around the world were ‘singled out for murder’
Many of the journalists on Malema’s list have already been subjected to a torrent of abuse on social media platforms
Tanzania’s President Magufuli is facing growing international pressure and sanction over the repression of civil society, the media and gay people
There are conflicting accounts of what happened to Angela Quintal and Muthoki Mumo during their detention in Tanzania
Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said Tanzanian authorities told her Quintal and Mumo were detained because they had contravened their visa regulations
Today more journalists are murdered because of their reporting than die in war zones
‘Journalists will not go down without a fight, even as it becomes ever more difficult to do so’
Angela Quintal and her Committee to Protect Journalists colleague Muthoki Mumo are now free to leave Tanzania
Viktoria Marinova is the third high-profile journalist to be killed in the European Union in the past year, and the fourth since the start of 2017
There has been no honeymoon period for the press under the new government of President George Weah
The Cameroonian government is silencing dissent by using the ambiguous provisions of an anti-terrorism law to arrest and harass journalists
A new anti-terror law is being used to silence any critical media that brings attention to the poor governance of President Biya’s and his government
Kenya’s government is undermining press freedom with journalists threatened "almost weekly", a report by a media rights organisation shows.
An international media rights body has criticised the SABC’s Hlaudi Motsoeneng for proposing licences for journalists and increased media regulation.
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/ 27 January 2012
An Ethopian judge has handed down prison sentences to journalists and politicians under the controversial anti-terrorism laws.
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/ 9 December 2011
The Committee to Protect Journalists are in solidarity with SA media that have voiced their worries over the Protection of State Information Bill.
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/ 8 December 2011
The number of journalists that have been arrested in the world has hit a 15-year high, with independent journalists bearing the brunt of this.
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/ 1 November 2011
The Committee to Protect Journalists says it fears for several journalists and bloggers in Syria who vanished with no response from authorities.
Sixteen journalists covering the conflict in Libya are reported missing or detained by authorities in the North African country.
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/ 16 February 2011
CBS foreign correspondent Lara Logan suffered a "brutal" sexual assault at the hands of a mob in Egypt while covering the downfall of Hosni Mubarak.
A freelance Zimbabwean photojournalist was released on Tuesday after spending a night in police cells for filming prisoners outside a court.
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In the past decade alone, at least 17 journalists in Russia have been killed. Someone is getting away with murdering journalists.
A rights group on Friday urged Sri Lanka to investigate recent attacks against the media, saying it was disappointed with the government’s stance.