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Last week in press freedom -- check back every Friday for the latest attacks on journalists, journalism, and your right to know

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Last Week in Press Freedom -- check back at the end of each week for a round-up of the latest news in attacks on journalists, journalism, and your right to know

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Last week in press freedom:

Read more about the case of Portland reporter Alissa Azar, Israel's standing in the global press freedom index, threats to journalists' right to source protection in France and more

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This Week in Press Freedom continues into the new year -- check back each week for the latest news about attacks on journalists and journalism.

Here's our first news roundup of 2025 for the week of January 4-10

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In 2024, we helped free Julian Assange and Daniel Hale and organized a new coalition in support of Palestinian journalists.

Help us take on new fights for journalists' right to publish, sources' right to blow the whistle, and your right to know.

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"What specific steps has the State Department taken to secure access for international journalists, including Americans, to Gaza?"

"What steps have you taken to seek full accountability for the killings of journalists by the IDF?"

12 Senators, led by Brian Schatz and including Bernie Sanders, Tim Kaine, Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar, Cory Booker & others, write to US Sec. Antony Blinken:

"The United States must make clear to Israel that targeting media organizations and members of the press is unacceptable."

Democrat Jim McGovern and Republican Thomas Massie have coauthored a new letter to U.S. President Biden, urging him to pardon Assange before leaving office in January, to “remove the precedent” set by Assange’s plea deal under the Espionage Act

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19 Senators voted to block weapons sales to Israel sending a clear signal that US policy must change

Together with over 100 journalists & free press groups we continue calling on the US to stop sending weapons to Israel that are used to kill Palestinian journalists

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Want to be informed about the state of media freedom in the US and beyond? Read our weekly press freedom round-ups, recapping the latest attacks on journalists, their right to publish and our right to know.

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Trump's press freedom record is famously bleak—indicting Assange, threatening reporters—which his campaign has promised to repeat in his second term. But Biden has failed to protect journalists enough.

A look at the war on journalism & Trump’s re-election: couragefound.org/2024/11/trum...

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