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Emin Huseynov
Emin Huseynov is a human rights defender who fled persecution from Azerbaijan when authorities raided the offices of his organization in 2014. Huseynov fled to Switzerland in 2015.
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LuxLeaks
Whistleblowers at PriceWaterhouseCooper exposed widespread tax-evasion fraud in reporting that later became known as LuxLeaks. Antoine Deltour and Raphaël Halet were imprisoned for blowing the whistle on PWC, though a court later overturned Deltour’s conviction.
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Chelsea Manning
Chelsea Manning is a U.S. Army whistleblower, who leaked hundreds of thousands of classified military documents to WikiLeaks in 2010, exposing war crimes, previously uncounted civilian casualties, and the true nature of modern warfare. A former intelligence analyst who was stationed in Baghdad during the Iraq War, Manning is the source behind the infamous “Collateral…
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Jeremy Hammond
Jeremy Hammond is an anarchist hacker who was arrested and imprisoned for sending thousands of emails from intelligence firm Stratfor to WikiLeaks, who then published the files exposing widespread corruption and illegality in 2012. Arrested in 2012 and sentenced in 2013 to 10 years in prison, Hammond was finally in November 2020. While in prison…
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Lauri Love
Lauri Love is a Finnish-British dual citizen who successfully defeated a U.S. extradition request in 2018, when he was indicted for allegedly defacing the Justice Department’s website in protest of the DOJ’s persecution of Aaron Swartz. Love’s use of the Forum Bar helped create a precedent that could help others facing similar extradition requests.
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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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Trump’s re-election and the war on journalism
Donald Trump is poised to return to the White House, and press freedom groups are sounding the alarm about what his election means for the state of journalism. Courage joins these groups in standing up for truthtellers, for journalists’ right to publish, and for your right to know, regardless of which party is in power.
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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