Journalist and human rights defender Sanna Ejaz was briefly arrested and later released during the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) protest on January 6.
Read MoreThe Coalition For Women In Journalism (CFWIJ) and Committee To Protect Journalists (CPJ) launched a petition calling upon Guatemalan authorities to drop the charges against Anastasia Mejía.
Read MoreWashington Post journalists Zoaenn Murphy and Whitney Leaming were arrested by police while reporting on the Capitol Hill insurrection.
Read MoreCFWIJ has documented numerous examples of press freedom and human rights violations during the protests and campaign rallies.
Read MoreSaudi women’s rights defender Loujain al-Hathloul, who spent nearly three years in arbitrary pre-trial detention, sentenced to five years and eight months in prison.
Read MoreZhang Zhan, a Chinese citizen journalist was sentenced to four years in prison in Shanghai on Monday due to her coverage on the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan.
Read MoreManila Today’s editor, Lady Ann Salem, was arrested during police operations in Manila on December 10, the International Human Rights Day.
Read MoreWriter and activist Nouf Abdulaziz was arrested on June 6, 2018, during a raid on her residence in Riyadh.
Read MoreJournalist Nazha ElKhalidi and her fiancée have been put under house arrest and their wedding postponed by Moroccan authorities.
Read MoreFreelance photographer Chae Kihn was arrested by New York Police Department (NYPD) while covering an anti-Trump demonstration.
Read MoreReporter Ekaterina Ishchenko was arbitrarily arrested and fined by state authorities as part of a coordinated plan to intimidate journalists.
Read MoreXol Abaj radio reporter and indigenous rights activist Anastasia Mejia was arrested with charges of “sedition”, “aggravated attack”, and “arson”.
Read MoreJinnews reporter Sehriban Abi, journalist Nazan Sala and Mesopotamia Agency correspondents Adnan Bilen and Cemil Ugur got arrested.
Read MoreRSF’s 2019 Press Freedom Prize winner journalist turned activist Pham Doan Trang was arrested today during a raid at her house.
Read MoreReporter of Jefferson Public Radio, April Ehrlich was arrested while covering the news of dispersing of homeless campers who have been evicted from their “tent city” in Hawthorne Park.
Read MoreInvestigative journalist Paola Ugaz is facing legal harassment following her investigation of allegations of sexual abuse by the Sodalicio de Vida Cristiana, a religious organization in Peru.
Read MoreIndigenous journalist Starla Myers was arrested on Sep 16 by police over her coverage of protests of land defenders in the 1492 Land Back Lane action reclaiming land along Haldimand Tract.
KPCC reporter Josie Huang was arrested with brutal police violence in the United States.
Read MoreThe verdict hearing in the lawsuit filed against journalist Hülya Kılınç for her report on the death of a MİT (National Intelligence Agency) officer in Libya was held.
Read MoreCFWIJ does not celebrate a "Press Holiday" in an environment where journalists are accused of being "terrorists and crime machines".
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