All news on the topic: Journalists

A Russian spy cell operating in the UK planned to kidnap a journalist and smuggle him out of the country using a small boat, the Old Bailey has heard.

Those who fled Russia to escape persecution for opposing President Vladimir Putin and his regime, may have avoided direct reprisal—but their loved ones are now in the regime’s crosshairs.

Killing of journalists in Israeli strike could be war crime, legal experts say after Guardian investigation

The two countries topped the 2024 Impunity Index, which ranks countries based on the number of unsolved journalist murders as a percentage of population, while globally impunity surrounding attacks on journalists remains rampant with almost 80% of murders going unpunished.

This is the deeply disturbing moment a gang of sex predators decide ‘let’s go for it’ after finding a lone British woman ‘completely wasted’ on a beach in Magaluf.

A writer has been banned for life from CNN after telling a British Muslim journalist he hoped his ‘beeper doesn’t go off’.

The Israel-Gaza war has taken an “unprecedented toll” on journalists, with 128 killed across Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories over the past year, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a nonprofit organization that promotes press freedoms worldwide.

The last decade has seen an “appalling” suppression of journalistic freedoms which threatens the core of democratic governance globally, according to Reporters without Borders (RSF).

At least 50 press arrested on Saturday in Abuja as almost 700 demonstrators detained since unrest began

Two Al Jazeera correspondents were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Al-Shati refugee camp, northern Gaza, on Wednesday, sparking condemnation from advocacy groups and highlighting the dangers for local reporters covering the horrors of Israel’s offensive.

A Russian court has sentenced veteran RFE/RL journalist Alsu Kurmasheva, who holds dual U.S.-Russian citizenship, to 6.5 years in prison on charges of spreading falsehoods about the Russian army.

Macharia Gaitho, a veteran Kenyan journalist, is still confused by his abduction. After men in a white car followed him from his house in Nairobi, and then tried to pull him out of his vehicle, he went to the police station to report it.

Unknown attackers brutally assassinated veteran Pakistani journalist Khalil Jibran, a husband and father of six, who has over the past two years covered the rise of militancy and terrorism in the country.

Authorities in Moscow issued arrest warrants against Roman Anin, the editor-in-chief of Important Stories (IStories), and journalist Ekaterina Fomina, accusing them of spreading fake news about the Russian army.

A Kyrgyz court ordered on Friday that four reporters, who were charged in January with “inciting mass unrest” through their investigative stories about corruption in the Central Asian country, remain in pre-trial detention until August 8, according to their editor, Bolot Temirov.

Rwandan journalist John Williams Ntwali spent his career holding authorities to account –– and many believe he was killed for it.

Tunisian courts convicted three media workers this week, amid what critics say is a wider crackdown on civil society by the government of President Kaïs Saïed.

Nationalists joining PM Andrej Plenkovic’s new coalition have demanded cuts to funding for an independent newspaper.

Journalists warn new populist prime minister is trying to sideline those in the media he disagrees with.

An investigative journalist in Nigeria has been arrested by police and held without charge for over a week, leading to growing fears for his safety.

The journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered by a car bomb near her home in Malta more than six years ago, but the repercussions of her reporting continue to shake Maltese society.

Unesco joint research dating back 15 years found violence and intimidation against about 750 reporters and 44 murders

Met police say investigation into stabbing of Iranian journalist near home in Wimbledon is being led by counter-terrorism officers