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The Committee to Protect Journalists issued a statement yesterday asking the US government to “urge India to end its media crackdown” and “release six journalists arbitrarily detained in retaliation for their work”.

The Committee to Protect Journalists issued a strongly-worded statement yesterday after reports on three journalists being allegedly assaulted by security personnel in Manipur.

The world is becoming more dangerous for journalists. On this World Press Freedom Day, there are ways to help

Newsrooms are still fighting to honour press freedom despite government pressure, competition with social media platforms and declining trust in the media.

Chinese authorities have formally charged a prominent journalist with spying, over a year after he was detained while having lunch with a Japanese diplomat, a media rights group said. Dong Yuyu, a senior columnist at the Communist Party newspaper Guangming Daily, was detained in February 2022 along with the diplomat…

The Committee to Protect Journalists says the European Union needs to do more to protect media workers.

News organizations that report from Russia are wondering about the risks after a Wall Street Journal reporter was arrested on espionage charges there

In an interview with NPR in Tehran, Iran's foreign minister dismisses the protests that have spread in the wake of Mahsa Amini's death, saying "nothing important had happened."

A total of 67 journalists died around the world in 2022, a watchdog group said, largely driven by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and civil unrest following the assassination of Haiti's president.