SOS for Journalist

Journalists around the world are increasingly seeing threats of violence, detention, and even death simply for doing their job, a new press index found.

It’s been over eight years since Jonathan Ellis, an investigative reporter at the Argus Leader, filed what he thought was a routine Freedom of Information Act request.

Brazil’s Supreme Court should revoke a decision to censure and fine an online magazine and refrain from censoring media outlets, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

State Security arbitrarily confiscated “his PC, laptop, video camera, camera, a router, an external hard drive, personal documents, certificates of study, etc.”

Cuban State Security agents raided the home of CubaNet journalist Augusto César San Martín on Tuesday and took him to the Zanja Police station in Havana.

The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on the Russian parliament to drop legislative amendments that would ban the distribution of foreign print media in the country without government permission. 

Mexican authorities must immediately undertake a swift, credible, and exhaustive investigation into the death of reporter Omar Iván Camacho Mascareño, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

When Venezuelan military officials detained American freelancer Cody Weddle on March 11, the experience was both frightening and bizarre. Weddle said that agents put a hood over his head and pressed him to reveal sources he had never spoken with.

The  Press Workers Union of Venezuela (SNTP) reported that journalist Danilo Alberto Gil was arrested on Saturday in Ciudad Ojeda, Zulia state, by agents of the National Police, when he was covering a demonstration amid ongoing blackouts and general crisis in the South American oil rich nation.

In the Philippines, award-winning journalist Maria Ressa has been freed on bail after authorities arrested her Friday for the second time in two months, reported Democracy Now on Friday. Ressa is the founder of the independent news site Rappler and a vocal critic of the Philippines’ authoritarian president, Rodrigo Duterte.