Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

“Las Vegas police have acted quickly in identifying and arresting a suspect in the fatal stabbing of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German,” said CPJ.

‘Novaya Gazeta’ suspended its print operation in Russia in March after receiving official warnings for allegedly failing to mark materials produced by so-called “foreign agents”. The newspaper is now barred from resuming printing in the future.

Ronson Chan, the chairperson of the Hong Kong Journalists Association, was arrested by the police while covering an apartment owners’ meeting for alleged obstruction of a police officer.

Harassment of journalists at independent news website shows how determined President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi’s government is to punish journalists for their work.

Reporters covering abortion in the United States are wary of online harassment and the threat of physical violence after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion.

In separate incidents Jojo Jibikilayi, Emmanuel Tujibikila and Achède Milantesa are assaulted, and detained by police after being accused of supporting the protest by the opposition party.

The journalists have been charged with spreading false information with the intention of creating a hostile international opinion of Rwanda, publishing unoriginal statements or pictures, and inciting insurrection, according to CPJ.

At least 13 journalists have been killed in Mexico in the first eight months of 2022, the highest number CPJ has ever documented in the country in a single year.