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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 20h

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 · 1d

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 · 3d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 3d

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

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 5d

“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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 6d

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

Despite famine and daily threats, El-Fasher’s journalists continue to report. Their message is clear: “Journalism here is not just a job, it is a duty, even if it costs us our lives,” Journalist Muammar Ibrahim told CPJ. cpj.org/2025/10/hunt...

Hunted, raped, starved: Sudan's journalists under siege in El-Fasher - Committee to Protect Journalists

New York, October 1, 2025—In Sudan’s vast western region of Darfur, journalists in El-Fasher are trapped under siege, enduring violence, hunger, and relentless bombardment alongside the people whose l...

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

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces fighters storm homes, use informants to track journalists, and commit sexual violence to silence reporting.

“Hunger is an infidel,” one journalist said, describing how colleagues collapse from anemia after eating animal feed to survive. cpj.org/2025/10/hunt...

Hunted, raped, starved: Sudan's journalists under siege in El-Fasher - Committee to Protect Journalists

New York, October 1, 2025—In Sudan’s vast western region of Darfur, journalists in El-Fasher are trapped under siege, enduring violence, hunger, and relentless bombardment alongside the people whose l...

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

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⤵️
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“I chose to stay so I can be the voice of my people who now have none. Journalism here is not just a job, it is a duty, even if it costs us our lives.” — Journalist Muammar Ibrahim in El-Fasher, Sudan

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International Center for Journalists @icfjorg.bsky.social · 6d

Our latest study finds that ethnic and Indigenous newsrooms are often on the frontlines in the fight against disinformation in the U.S. The report, produced with ASU and UMD, highlights strategies used by these media outlets across the country. Read the report: www.icfj.org/news/us-ethn...

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

Today, CPJ, @penamerica.bsky.social, and @freepress.bsky.social published a letter signed by 100+ leading writers, journalists, and scholars urging the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement to immediately release journalist Mario Guevara. pen.org/press-releas...

Detention of Reporter Mario Guevara Sparks Outcry from Writers, Journalists, and Scholars

Renowned writers and journalists sign on to a letter decrying the detention of journalist Mario Guevara who has been in ICE custody 100 days.

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

Today, CPJ joined @rsf.org to send a clear message to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr: Stop politicizing the agency and respect the First Amendment rights of media organizations to report the news without fear of retaliation. 🚨

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

“CPJ is deeply alarmed by reports that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officials in New York City have assaulted journalists simply for doing their jobs and covering matters of public importance." — Katherine Jacobsen, CPJ's U.S., Canada and Caribbean Program Coordinator

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

CPJ is grateful for #PressFreedom advocates @durbin.senate.gov, @schiff.senate.gov, Sen. Bill Cassidy, and @repmcgovern.bsky.social advocating for the release of political commentator and CPJ awardee Sonia Dahmani in a letter to Tunisian president Kais Saied. www.durbin.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

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

CPJ and 16 partner organizations wrote to leaders in Germany, Italy, and the Czech Republic to call for a suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement — which sets out the EU’s legal and institutional framework for political dialogue and economic cooperation with Israel. cpj.org?p=525409

CPJ and partners urge key EU member states to suspend EU-Israel Association Agreement - Committee to Protect Journalists

On September 30, 2025, CPJ and 16 partner organizations wrote to leaders in Germany, Italy, and the Czech Republic to call for a full or partial suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement. The ...

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RSF @rsf.org · 7d

#USA: RSF and @pressfreedom.bsky.social teamed up today outside FCC headquarters — the broadcast regulator — to send a message to its chair Brendan Carr in response to his threats against the media, which resulted in comedian Jimmy Kimmel being taken off the air:

Take politics out of the FCC.

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Gypsy Guillén Kaiser @gypsyrights.bsky.social · 8d

NEW ⚡#Tunisia: @pressfreedom.bsky.social interview about the fate of Tunisian commentator Sonia Dahmani who faces five legal proceedings and potential decades behind bars. Dahmani will be honored with CPJ's Intl Press Freedom Award in November. #IPFA2025 #FreeThePress

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‘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 202...

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