Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

If journalist Maria Ressa is convicted on all counts, she faces cumulative jail sentences of up to 100 years.

The shocking and brutal attack on Susana Carreño, less than a week after journalist Antonio de la Cruz and his daughter were killed in Tamaulipas, once again shows the Mexican authorities’ utter failure to protect the country’s press.

CPJ called on authorities to refrain from sentencing freelance journalist Lázaro Yuri Valle Roca to prison, to drop all charges against him, and to release the journalist, who has been held for more than a year in pretrial detention.

Whereas the current law requires proof that a journalist has received foreign funding before adding them to the ‘foreign agents’ list, the proposed law says anyone who “has received support and/or is otherwise under foreign influence” and whose work is widely disseminated or involves politics or the military would be labelled as a foreign agent.

Journalist Sorie Saio Sesay could face cybercrime charges for sharing a comment in a WhatsApp group alleging police were responsible for the death of a motorbike rider.

Three men, reported to be supporters of Ghana’s ruling party, interrupt a live programme on Benya FM, brutally assaulting host Eric Blessing Eshun and producer Emmanuel Egyirfah.

False narratives, threats of arrest, and a biker group blocking access. These are just a few of the challenges journalists have faced while covering the aftermath of the May 24 shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

CPJ condemned a recent civil court ruling against journalist Juliana Dal Piva, and expressed concern that the ruling could set a dangerous precedent.