Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

Journalists were assaulted and briefly detained while covering the ongoing protests against COVID-19 restrictions in China.

“Kyrgyz authorities must immediately reverse this measure, which caps months of judicial harassment of Temirov and his outlet, Temirov Live, and cease harassing and obstructing the work of independent news outlets” – CPJ

Police seized electronic devices including laptops, mobiles phone, memory cards, and pen-drives during the raids.

Journalist Innocent Phiri and camera operator Obvious Kapunda, who filmed the raid of an opposition politician’s home, were detained overnight by Zambian police, and only released after paying an admission of guilt fine.

Abu Akleh was shot and killed on 11 May 2022 while reporting on an Israeli military raid in the Palestinian West Bank city of Jenin.

Experienced French journalist Sonia Rolley is not only denied accreditation to report in the DRC, she is deported from the country without her passport and belongings.

Rwanda-based Burundian journalist Floriane Irangabiye is arrested by police upon her return to her home country; although she has not been formally charged, she is accused of working with armed opposition groups and espionage.

On 6 November an unknown individual sent an email with the subject line “Charlie Hebdo of Belgrade” to the editor-in-chief of ‘Danas’, threatening staff with “barrages of bullets” because of its editorial policy. The email named specific journalists as “enemies of the Serbian people” and “traitors”.