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The Middle East and North Africa Program @pressfreedom. لجنة حماية الصحفيين - الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا کمیته حمایت از روزنامهنگاران
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Joined February 2013
#Yemen 🇾🇪 | Yemeni freelance journalist Naseh Shaker has been detained in Aden since November 2023 after disappearing while travelling to Beirut to attend a Hostile Environment and First Aid Training (HEFAT) course organised by the Samir Kassir Foundation. Authorities refused for
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#اليمن: الحرية للصحفي #ناصح_شاكر! 🛑 أكثر من عامين من الاحتجاز التعسفي ف #عدن دون ذنب سوى ممارسة مهنته. 35 منظمة حقوقية تطالب بالإفراج الفوري عنه. ناصح هو صحفي مستقل عمل مع كبرى الوكالات الدولية، ويجدر به التواجد بين أهله وليس خلف القضبان. بيان المنظمات🔗 https://t.co/oWMnYKVmN5
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We join @CPJMENA among 35 NGOs calling on #Yemeni authorities to free journalist Naseh Shaker, who has been held arbitrarily for 2 years and unable to speak with his family or lawyers. Journalism is not a crime!
#Yemen: CPJ and 34 other organizations, in a joint letter urged Yemeni authorities in Aden—including both the Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) and the de facto Southern Transitional Council (STC)—to immediately release journalist Naseh Shaker. https://t.co/LJ2yfdP4F4
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#اليمن: دعت لجنة حماية الصحفيين (CPJ)، إلى جانب 34 منظمة أخرى، في رسالة مشتركة، السلطات اليمنية في عدن—بما في ذلك مجلس القيادة الرئاسي والسلطة الأمر الواقع المتمثلة في المجلس الانتقالي الجنوبي—إلى الإفراج الفوري عن الصحفي ناصح شاكر. https://t.co/LJ2yfdP4F4
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The Committee to Protect Journalists and 34 other human rights and press freedom organizations, in a joint letter on December 17, 2025, urged Yemeni authorities in Aden—including both the internati...
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#Yemen: CPJ and 34 other organizations, in a joint letter urged Yemeni authorities in Aden—including both the Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) and the de facto Southern Transitional Council (STC)—to immediately release journalist Naseh Shaker. https://t.co/LJ2yfdP4F4
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The Committee to Protect Journalists and 34 other human rights and press freedom organizations, in a joint letter on December 17, 2025, urged Yemeni authorities in Aden—including both the internati...
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“The allegations of torture and sexual abuse made by Palestinian journalist Sami al-Sai are deeply alarming and tragically consistent with testimonies CPJ has received from other journalists detained in Israeli prisons,” said CPJ's Sara Qudah.
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Amman, December 16, 2025 — The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply alarmed by the harrowing public testimony given on Sunday by Palestinian freelance journalist Sami al-Sai, who described...
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#Palestine: @pressfreedom is deeply alarmed by the harrowing public testimony given on Sunday by Palestinian freelance journalist Sami al-Sai, who described experiencing alleged torture and sexual violence while in Israeli prison.
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Amman, December 16, 2025 — The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply alarmed by the harrowing public testimony given on Sunday by Palestinian freelance journalist Sami al-Sai, who described...
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The U.S. government must hold Israel accountable for the Oct. 13, 2023 double tap strike in Lebanon that killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah and wounded six others, including U.S. citizen Dylan Collins of AFP. Washington must send a clear message: Israel can not target
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French journalist Christophe Gleizes’ mother, Sylvie Godard, has written to Algeria’s president seeking a presidential pardon for her son. Gleizes was arrested in May 2024, and he remains detained in Algeria today.
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In a letter sent to the President of the Republic of Algeria, Christophe Gleizes’ mother, Sylvie Godard, has requested a presidential pardon for her son, a French journalist and regular contributor...
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“By upholding a seven-year sentence against French journalist Christophe Gleizes for conducting an interview...Algerian authorities are intensifying a deeply alarming crackdown on the press,” said CPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah.
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New York, December 8, 2025—Algerian authorities must cease their legal attacks on the press, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Monday, as a seven-year prison sentence was upheld against...
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#Algeria: After an appeals court upheld his 7-year prison sentence, French sports journalist Christophe Gleizes, imprisoned in Algeria on terrorism charges, has filed an appeal seeking a new trial with the country's highest court, the Court of Cassation.
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Earlier this month, an Algerian appeals court upheld the seven-year prison term for sportswriter Christophe Gleizes.
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US @SenPeterWelch revealed Israel has closed its review into its military’s Oct. 13, 2023, targeted double-tap strike on journalists in Lebanon, at a press conference today with CPJ, @amnestyusa, @ChrisVanHollen and @RepBeccaB. https://t.co/BmaPQHrvoh
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Watch LIVE 📷 CPJ and Amnesty International USA join U.S. Senator Peter Welch, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, and Rep. Becca Balint at the U.S. Capitol to demand accountability for Israel’s systematic targeting of the press since October 7, 2023. The U.S. government has failed in its
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#ایران: اقدام دستگاه قضایی ایران علیه رسانه جماران و مدیرمسئول آن، محمدعلی نادعلیزاده، بهدلیل اظهارنظر مفسر و فعال محیط زیست، اسماعیل کهرم، نمونهای از تشدید سرکوب آزادی بیان در جمهوری اسلامی است. جرمانگاریِ بیانِ واقعیت درباره بحرانهای بهداشت عمومی و محیط زیست، سوءاستفاده
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#Iran: The Iranian judiciary’s action against the Jamaran news outlet and its managing editor, Mohammadali Nad-Alizadeh, over comments made by commentator and environmentalist #Esmail_Kahrom exemplifies the Islamic Republic’s escalating repression of free expression.
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The number of journalists and media workers killed worldwide in 2025 has already reached 2024’s record high of 126 killed, with more than three weeks left in the year, CPJ data shows. Israel has killed almost 250 journalists since October 2023 — including in Gaza, Iran, and
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Israel has barred international media from entering Gaza since October 2023, despite a longstanding petition seeking access to the territory, brought by journalists and supported by CPJ. On Sunday, the Israeli Supreme Court gave the government an extension in responding to the
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This decline has occurred amid rising government pressure, military censorship, physical and online attacks, and security restrictions — all of which constrain the public’s access to information about what human rights groups and UN experts have determined to be a genocide.
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Two years into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, press freedom inside the country has reached a breaking point. Journalists report escalating censorship, harassment, and self-censorship that, they say, now...
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Two years into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, press freedom inside the country has reached a breaking point. Journalists report escalating censorship, harassment, and self-censorship that, they say, now functions as “part of the war effort.” https://t.co/covq9ZfW9u
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Two years into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, press freedom inside the country has reached a breaking point. Journalists report escalating censorship, harassment, and self-censorship that, they say, now...
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