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Press freedom is your freedom🗞️ The Committee to Protect Journalists is an independent, nonprofit organization that promotes #pressfreedom worldwide.
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CPJ is grateful to #PressFreedom advocate @SenPeterWelch for speaking on the Senate floor about American journalists who have been targeted by Israeli forces while doing their jobs.
Israel has been targeting and killing journalists in connection with their reporting for decades, and this deadly pattern must end. #EndImpunity
This is the moment an Israeli settler kicks Palestinian freelance journalist Salman al-Khatib as he and other journalists covered Israeli demolitions near Birzeit in the occupied West Bank.
Al-Khatib’s experience was not isolated. In the first eight months of 2026, CPJ reviewed at least 16 incidents in which Israeli settlers assaulted, threatened, or obstructed journalists in the West Bank, affecting at least 35 journalists.
Read CPJ’s full investigation⤵️
cpj.org/2026/09/kicked-threa…
CPJ welcomes the significant vote by 47 U.S. Senators on September 29, calling for justice and accountability for the killings of civilians, including Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, by Israeli forces and settlers.
More than four years after Abu Akleh was killed by Israeli Forces in May 2023, her family is still waiting for justice and accountability.
Abu Akleh’s murder was not an isolated incident; rather it embodies a deadly pattern in which Israeli forces have been targeting and killing journalists in connection with their reporting for decades.
Those killings have dramatically spiked since October 7, 2023, during which Israel has killed at least 189 Palestinians in Gaza.
The pursuit of justice and accountability must continue to ensure the impunity enjoyed by Israel for crimes against journalists is brought to an end. CPJ will continue to press for that accountability.
Read CPJ’s letter supporting the resolution⤵️
cpj.org/?p=623384
CC: @ChrisVanHollen @SenSanders @LinaAbuAkleh
🎥 "Let my father return home."
One year ago, unidentified men abducted Mamoudou Babila Keita's father from his home, in retaliation for his journalistic work.
Despite the authorities' announcement of the opening of an investigation, Keita and his family are still without news of Elhadj Adama Keita, who is now 76 years old.
The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the Guinean authorities to act to ensure the safe return of Elhadj Adama Keita to his loved ones.
Covering the midterms? Get election-ready.
Journalists covering elections may face everything from online threats and physical safety concerns to subpoenas, device seizures, data security risks, and burnout.
The U.S. Journalist Assistance Network and partners are hosting "Election Ready: Safety and Resilience for Journalists," a four-part webinar series offering practical guidance for journalists, editors, and newsroom leaders.
📌 Legal readiness
🔐 Device & data security
🛡️ Physical, digital & psychosocial safety
🧠 Stress management & post-election recovery
Four sessions. Practical tools. Experts from across the journalist-support community.
Starting TODAY → Nov. 17
Register: pen.org/election-ready/
Committee to Protect Journalists retweeted
On this day 25 years ago, journalist Martin O’Hagan was shot dead in Northern Ireland. His family is still waiting for justice.
“It’s shameful that 25 years have passed and we are still waiting for justice for Martin O’Hagan. He was killed to silence his reporting on paramilitary crime, and the failure to punish his killers is not only crushing for those who knew him, but also fuels the unacceptable level of threat and violence which journalists in Northern Ireland continue to face today,” said CPJ's Fiona O'Brien.
CPJ and @AmnestyUK are calling for a fresh investigation, and for the immediate publication of a long delayed Ombudsman’s report into police handling of the case.
#WorldNewsDay #NorthernIreland
Read more here ⬇️
cpj.org/2026/09/northern-ire…
Committee to Protect Journalists retweeted
#Eritrea 🇪🇷 As foreign minister Osman Saleh prepares to address #UNGA on Monday, CPJ calls on authorities to free the #Eritrea16, among the longest-detained journalists in the world. Most have been arbitrarily imprisoned for 25 years, without trial or access to their families.
In 2016, Osman told Radio France International that the journalists were alive and would face trial "when the government decides."
CPJ calls on Eritrean authorities to account for these journalists’ health, whereabouts, and legal status. Their families have a right to know.
Read more: cpj.org/awards/the-eritrea-1…
Facts matter. Journalists work every day to bring them to you.
Today, on World News Day, we say thank you – and we ask you to support them.
#ChooseTrustedJournalism #JournalismMatters #WorldNewsDay #WND26 #WND2026
“The best practice for climate reporting is the same as any reporting: to give facts, make it clear, make it simple, and make it relevant to people’s everyday lives,” said Alan Sealls, Emmy-winning meteorologist.
The @CJR spoke with climate reporters about staying on the beat. Read more⤵️
cjr.org/feature/how-should-w…
World News Day is a day to recognise what goes into journalism: the questioning, investigating, and explaining; the dogged persistence to get to the truth.
CPJ defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. #ChooseTrustedJournalism #WorldNewsDay #WND26 #WND2026
Four Cameroonian journalists were detained in Yaoundé for entering a center secretly holding deportees from the United States earlier this year. After a six-month investigation, @FbdnStories is publishing the testimonies of two women the journalists interviewed before being arrested, along with details of a secret immigration agreement between Washington and Yaoundé. Read more: forbiddenstories.org/let-the…
Covering the midterms? Get election-ready.
Journalists covering elections may face everything from online threats and physical safety concerns to subpoenas, device seizures, data security risks, and burnout.
The U.S. Journalist Assistance Network and partners are hosting "Election Ready: Safety and Resilience for Journalists," a four-part webinar series offering practical guidance for journalists, editors, and newsroom leaders.
📌 Legal readiness
🔐 Device & data security
🛡️ Physical, digital & psychosocial safety
🧠 Stress management & post-election recovery
Four sessions. Practical tools. Experts from across the journalist-support community.
Sept. 29 → Nov. 17
Register: pen.org/election-ready/
In an unprecedented move, Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal is pursuing crimes-against-humanity charges against three journalists over their journalism. CPJ’s Somi Das breaks down the cases and explains why criminalizing journalistic work in this way is deeply troubling for press freedom.
Read more: cpj.org/2026/08/bangladesh-w…
#PressFreedom #JournalismIsNotACrime
LAST DAY to apply📣 CPJ is #hiring a Marketing Associate that will be responsible for developing marketing strategies to increase awareness of CPJ’s brand. This hybrid role is based in New York City.
🗓️ Deadline is September 25, 2026
Apply today: cpjorg.bamboohr.com/careers/…
“It’s extremely uncomfortable to be here as a journalist because I’m not doing my journalistic work, but I’m forced to be advocating for Georgian media and for my colleague Mzia Amaglobeli, who became the most targeted in this wave of repression against independent media in Georgia,” said Georgian journalist Irma Dimitradze. #FreeMzia
Georgia 🇬🇪 :As Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze prepares to speak at #UNGA on Thursday, CPJ calls on #Georgia to immediately release award-winning journalist Mzia Amaglobeli, who has been unjustly detained since January 2025.
Mzia is being used as an example to intimidate what remains of Georgia’s free press and CPJ will continue to press for justice for her.
Georgia's international partners, many of whom are also in New York for #UNGA, must also redouble their efforts to push for her early release.
Watch CPJ's Fiona O'Brien, @JWhittingdale and @irmadimitradze explain why this case is so important. #FreeMzia #journalismisnotacrime
Journalists in the U.S.: It’s critical to know your rights when confronted by law enforcement officers while covering a protest, demonstration or other political event. Here are quick tips👇
This guide was prepared for CPJ with pro bono legal support facilitated through TrustLaw, the @TRF's global pro bono legal network. cpj.org/?p=400507
“Dawit Isaak has spent 25 years in Eritrean detention without charge or trial. His name should not have to be invoked year after year to remind the world of this monumental injustice. Eritrea must finally free Dawit and every journalist still detained, and tell families what happened to those who died or disappeared in custody.” — Angela Quintal, @CPJAfrica Regional Director
📰 September 23 marks 25 years since Swedish-Eritrean journalist #DawitIsaak was forcibly disappeared and arbitrarily detained by Eritrean authorities.
Arrested alongside several fellow journalists in September 2001, Mr. Isaak and his colleagues are now the world’s longest-detained journalists.
The RWCHR along with a broad international coalition of human rights groups is urging 🇸🇪 Swedish and 🇪🇺 EU officials to take meaningful action on his case while there is still time.
Read the full press release here 👇
raoulwallenbergcentre.org/en…
Ahead of Thursday’s meeting between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and @POTUS , CPJ took to the streets of Washington, DC, calling for the release of jailed publisher Jimmy Lai and veteran journalist Dong Yuyu.
In a joint mobile billboard campaign with @RSF_inter, the two press freedom groups urged Trump to raise the cases of Lai and Dong with Xi. China has the world’s highest number of imprisoned journalists, with at least 50 behind bars simply for doing their jobs.
Join us to #FreeJimmyLai and #FreeDongYuyu: cpj.org/asia/china/
cpj.org/data/imprisoned/curr…