Category: Press Freedom
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January 4-10
British judge orders prosecutors to come clean on Assange case; Gaza journalists demand end to Israel’s impunity; Article 19 calls on Israel to stop targeting press; Israel kills writer and journalists Mohammad Hijazi and cameraman Saed Abu Nabhan; Journalist Richard Medhurst faces years in prison for refusing to hand over passwords to UK police
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December 21-27, 2024
Israel kills five journalists in one attack in Gaza; Israel threatens Al Jazeera correspondent
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December 14-20, 2024
U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Journalist arrests surge in 2024; Israel kills three Palestinian journalists in 24 hours; Two Kurdish journalists killed in a reportedly Turkish drone attack; Jesselyn Radack writes about the continued dangers for press freedom posed by the Espionage Act
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December 7-13, 2024
IFJ calls 2024 a “particularly deadly” year for journalists; The PRESS Act fails to pass the Senate on unanimous consent; RSF’s 2024 Round-up: journalism suffers exorbitant human cost; Alleged CIA leaker ordered to stay in jail pending trail; RCFP: DOJ’s subpoenas for journalists’ records raise First Amendment concerns
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November 30 – December 6
12 Senators write to Sec. Blinken: “prioritize journalists’ immediate access to Gaza”, Trump advisers renew push for pardon of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Israel attacks journalists in Lebanon hours after ceasefire begins
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November 15-22, 2024
Attacks on journalists in Gaza continue; Jailed Whistleblower David McBride speaks from prison; Israel has a long history of smearing journalists; Journalists under fire in the U.S.
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November 8-14, 2024
Senate Democrats running out of time to pass PRESS Act; IFEX stands in solidarity with the Palestinian and Lebanese journalists; Two more Palestinian journalists murdered in Gaza City
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November 1-7, 2024
Press freedom groups react to Trump’s re-election; Article 19 calls for an end to impunity for crimes against journalists in Palestine and Lebanon
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October 25-31, 2024
Haiti and Israel most likely to let journalists’ murders go unpunished CPJ’s 2024 Global Impunity Index shows; Three media workers killed in Israeli attack in southern Lebanon; Three journalists killed in northern Gaza
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October 19-25, 2024
Press freedom groups urge DOJ to drop all charges against Indian Time reporter; Outrage over Israel’s threats against six Al Jazeera journalists; Sanders leads call for DOJ to investigate Israeli attack on journalists; 65 House Democrats send letter to Biden urging unimpeded media access to Gaza, 19 press freedom and human rights organizations support it;…