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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 2h

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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 8h

Two years after Israel’s October 13, 2023 attack that killed Issam Abdallah and injured 6 journalists in southern Lebanon, no one has been held responsible. Israel has targeted journalists for decades without accountability, which has only worsened since October 2023.

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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 1d

Israel has killed at least 237 journalists and media workers since October 7, 2023, according to CPJ data. Those who have survived the record death toll have faced being traumatized, displaced, and deliberately starved over the last two years.

More from @niemanreports.org:

Starved, Displaced, Killed: Gaza’s Journalists Persist Despite Dire Conditions - Nieman Reports

The record death toll for news workers in Gaza is just one of the grim realities facing those still reporting as the Israel-Hamas war grinds into its third year.

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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 2d

The targeted Oct. 13, 2023 Israeli attack that killed @reuters.com journalist Issam Abdallah and wounded 6 others in south Lebanon was a war crime, a United Nations rapporteur said Friday.

Journalists are civilians under international humanitarian law — they are #NotATarget.

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UN: Deadly 2023 Israel attack on Reuters, AFP journalists in Lebanon was war crime

A United Nations rapporteur on Friday said an Israeli attack on south Lebanon on Oct. 13, 2023, that killed a Reuters journalist and wounded others, including two from AFP, was a war crime.Morris...

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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 2d

Join us for a free webinar, “Journalist safety in the US" to learn about:
🔴 Recent changes in U.S. immigration policy + landscape
🔴 Legal issues related to immigration reporting
🔴 Legal rights + digital safety covering protests, immigration + the border

🗓️ 10/30 | 1-2:30pm ET
🔗 cpj.org/USJANPanel

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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 2d

Journalists: Stay safe when reporting on immigration in the US 📣

The US Journalist Assistance Network invites you to join a free webinar about legal rights and digital safety while reporting on immigration and the border.

🗓️ 10/30 | 1-2:30pm ET
🔗 cpj.org/USJANPanel

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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 2d

“If you can get away with killing journalists in order to control the narrative, and you know that there will be no repercussions — not domestically and not internationally — then you will continue to do this.” — @jodieginsberg.bsky.social in @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social⤵️
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Smear. Kill. Repeat. | The Listening Post

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 2d

[email protected] examines Israel’s systematic targeting of Palestinian journalists in Gaza over the last two years in their special episode, “Smear. Kill. Repeat.,” featuring CPJ’s CEO @jodieginsberg.bsky.social.

Watch now ⤵️
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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 3d

"As ceasefire talks progress, it is vital that press freedom be part of the conversation — including the urgent need for independent foreign media access to Gaza and independent investigations and prosecutions of killings and attacks on journalists." — Sara Qudah, CPJ's MENA Regional Director

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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 4d

Journalists in Sudan’s El-Fasher are trapped under siege. They endure violence, hunger and relentless bombardment alongside the civilians they report on.

Read CPJ’s new investigation: cpj.org/2025/10/hunt...

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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 4d

Israel is responsible for 85 of 124 journalist killings across the globe in 2024 — nearly 70% — the highest number by a single country in one year since CPJ began documenting this data more than three decades ago.

Read CPJ’s #2024KilledReport: cpj.org?p=451429
More coverage: cpj.org/issue/israel...

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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 5d

An independent media is vital for democracy. Access to information enables all people to make decisions and hold the powerful to account.

A world without journalism is a world without truth.

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#JournalismMatters

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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 6d

Journalist Mario Guevara has been deported from the U.S. back to his native El Salvador, despite having U.S. legal status.

“This is a case about first amendment rights,” Katherine Jacobsen, CPJ’s U.S., Canada, and Caribbean program coordinator, tells the BBC.

📺 Watch⤵️

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Channeldraw ★ @channeldraw.bsky.social · 7d

Today, the weekly supplement of the newspaper @elpais.com features on its cover one of my drawings dedicated to Palestinian journalists killed in the #Gaza Strip. The cover story “Objective: Kill the Journalist” (@bealecumberri.bsky.social)

👀 elpais.com/eps/2025-10-... @pressfreedom.bsky.social

Objetivo: matar al periodista

El ejército de Israel ha matado a dos centenares de informadores en Gaza en los últimos dos años, mientras el Gobierno de Netanyahu prohíbe la entrada de la prensa internacional a la Franja. Es una si...

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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 6d

Join us for Press Play Prague on October 7–11 at Kino Atlas. Discover documentaries, short films, and discussions tackling the challenges and impact of journalism today. Visit www.kinoatlaspraha.cz?tag=111 for the full program and tickets.

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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 7d

Journalists are civilians under international humanitarian law.

Facilities and equipment utilized for reporting and disseminating news are also civilian structures.

They must be respected and protected.

Journalists are #NotATarget.

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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 7d

CPJ awardee, Tunisian lawyer + commentator Sonia Dahmani has been sentenced in 3 cases under Decree 54 & faces 2 more, with potential sentences exceeding 20 years.

Her sister tells CPJ about Sonia’s harsh reality in prison and what the case reveals about Tunisia’s justice system⤵️

‘They want to break her’: A Q&A with jailed Tunisian commentator Sonia Dahmani’s sister - Committee to Protect Journalists

Tunisian lawyer and commentator Sonia Dahmani, known for her bold defense of human rights and civil liberties, has become a symbol of the country’s escalating crackdown on dissent. Arrested in May…

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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 8d

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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 8d

Jailed Chinese journalist and CPJ awardee Dong Yuyu’s espionage conviction is “purely political,” his son told CPJ.

“The international community needs to remind the Chinese government that releasing my father does more good to China than keeping him imprisoned," Dong Yifu said.

Son of jailed Chinese journalist Dong Yuyu says espionage conviction ‘purely political’ - Committee to Protect Journalists

Punishment of hard labor, censorship, and threats of demotion over more than three decades did not stop Chinese journalist Dong Yuyu from doing his work. It was lunch with a diplomat that finally…

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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 9d

BREAKING🚨 Journalist Mario Guevara has officially been deported Friday from the United States back to his native El Salvador. This is a shameful erosion of press freedom in the U.S. — the first time that CPJ has documented this type of retaliation related to reporting.
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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 9d

Join us for Press Play Prague on October 7–11 at Kino Atlas. Discover documentaries, short films, and discussions tackling the challenges and impact of journalism today. Visit www.kinoatlaspraha.cz?tag=111 for the full program and tickets.

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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 9d

“Mario Guevara’s deportation is a troubling sign of the deteriorating freedom of the press under the Trump administration,” said CPJ U.S., Canada, and Caribbean Program Coordinator Katherine Jacobsen. “Make no mistake, this is not a simple immigration case."

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Journalist Mario Guevara to be deported from US in unprecedented case - Committee to Protect Journalists

Washington, D.C., October 2, 2025—In response to news that journalist Mario Guevara will be deported on Friday from the United States back to his native El Salvador, the Committee to Protect Journalis...

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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 10d

Congratulations to former CPJ #IPFA awardee @alsuk.bsky.social and her husband Pavel Butorin — both journalists with @rferl.org.web.brid.gy — for receiving the World Press Freedom Award from the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation🎉

📷: Pavel Butorin

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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 10d

Today marks seven years since the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a brutal act of transnational repression that laid bare the dangers journalists face worldwide. The failure to hold those responsible to account has entrenched a climate of impunity and abuses.

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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 10d

The Committee to Protect Journalists and Free Press express deep concern that a United States Appeals Court rejected a motion for stay of removal in the case of Mario Guevara, meaning that the journalist could now be deported back to his native El Salvador.

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CPJ, Free Press express deep concern as Mario Guevara faces imminent deportation - Committee to Protect Journalists

Washington, D.C., October 1, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists and Free Press express deep concern that a United States Appeals Court rejected a motion for stay of removal in the case of Mario...

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