Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

Prominent columnist detained for critical online posts that allegedly violated cybercrime law.

In two separate incidents, DRC journalists Fify Kibwana and Daniel Aloterembi are attacked while covering events involving an opposition politician.

CPJ has published its recommendations on upholding press freedom in Afghanistan a year after the Taliban regained control of the country.

The charges against Yevloyeva stem from a June post on her news website’s Telegram channel, which allegedly contained false information about the Russian armed forces. Yevloyeva, who is currently located outside Russia, was put on the country’s wanted list.

A person identifying himself as a “general” with the Patriotic Force and Integrationist of Congo (FPIC) armed group, sent a message to Jean Christian Bafwa Kabaseke, threatening him over his recent coverage of the group.

Journalist Henry Hererimana Serushago is forced to go into hiding, as the threat posed by the armed rebel M23, in DRC’s restive province of North Kivu, continues intensifying.

CPJ: “Land rights are an issue of fundamental concern to Indigenous and rural communities in Honduras and across the region, and community journalists must be able to cover these stories without being treated like criminals.”

“Guatemalan authorities should immediately release and drop any criminal charges against journalist José Rubén Zamora, president of ‘elPeriódico’. Judicial persecution against journalists is a mechanism of intimidation.”