Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

“Nicaraguan authorities should immediately release all staff members of ‘La Prensa’ held in custody, refrain from filing criminal charges against the outlet’s staff, and cease harassing the outlet.”

Bestowing this year’s IPFA on Jiménez recognizes that Cuba remains one of the most challenging environments in the Americas for the press.

Journalists in the region – and the world – are sadly more vulnerable after this trip, says the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Tanzania’s information minister is adamant that the suspension of “DarMpya” online news outlet is an administrative issue and has nothing to do with its critical content.

Liberian journalists Emmanuel Kollie and Amos Korzawu have filed a complaint against police officers who threatened to shoot them, while they were covering senatorial elections.

“By convicting journalist Katsiaryna Andreyeva on ludicrous treason charges only a few months before the end of her first prison term, Belarusian authorities are making it clear that they will be ruthless in continuing to take revenge on journalists who covered the 2020 protests demanding President Aleksandr Lukashenko resign” – CPJ

In separate cases Angolan journalists Escrivão José, Óscar Constantino, and Fernando Caetano could spend over a year in prison and/or heavily fined if found guilty of criminal insult and criminal defamation.

After Burkinabé journalist Newton Ahmed Barry questions Mali’s relationship with Russian mercenaries, an anonymous audio surfaces on social media, threatening the commentator.