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Killings of journalists around the world jumped by 50% in 2022 compared to the previous year, driven largely by the slayings of reporters in Ukraine, Mexico and Haiti

Committee to Protect Journalist reports region accounted for almost half of the 67 deaths worldwide

Sanna Irshad Mattoo was prevented by Indian authorities from flying to US to receive the prestigious Pulitzer Prize.

The Committee to Protect Journalists has called for Indian authorities to allow Kashmiri photojournalist Sanna Irshad Mattoo to travel abroad.

The charges are more serious. Particular journalists, very often belonging to the Muslim community or those who support minorities very strongly, are being targeted; accepting the present laws as they are, they are also being misused, he says

Paris (AFP) - Iran on Thursday arrested a reporter who covered the funeral of Mahsa Amini, her lawyer said, the latest of a growing number of journalists to be detained since protests erupted over the young woman's death.

Iran is stepping up arrests of activists and journalists in a crackdown against civil society as anti-regime protests rage nationwide, activists say. Twenty journalists have been imprisoned since the protests erupted earlier this month over the death of Mahsa Amini, 22, who had been arrested by the country's notorious morality…

Aakash Hassan was on his way to Sri Lanka last week when officials at New Delhi airport barred him from boarding plane.

From Washington, DC, slain Al Jazeera journalist’s relatives renew calls for accountability and independent US probe.