All news on the topic: Journalist safety

The Committee to Protect Journalists said Sunday that it is “deeply concerned” by reports that South African investigative journalist Micah Reddy and local fixer Kooki Mahmoud have gone missing in Djibouti, and urged authorities “to immediately clarify their whereabouts and ensure their safety.”

In October 2021, journalist Shahid Zehri was driving home to Karachi through the town of Hub, in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, when a bomb planted under his car seat detonated. He died of his injuries hours later.

Lithuanian journalists are protesting against legislation proposed by a powerful populist party that would make it easier to fire the head of the country’s public broadcaster.

A relentless crackdown over the past 18 months has eradicated any semblance of independent media from authoritarian Azerbaijan.

Press freedom in Burkina Faso is facing growing repression, marked by the kidnapping of two journalists just days after they openly criticized the junta’s control over the media.

Treatment of Gerald Flynn, who writes for the outlet Mongabay, condemned as attack on independent media.

Police and intelligence services in Serbia are using advanced mobile forensics products and previously unknown spyware to illegally surveil journalists, environmental campaigners and civil rights activists, according to a report.