It has been an uphill battle for Rappler CEO and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa against the Philippine judicial system and the libel case lodged against her in 2018.

Journalists Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi are reportedly currently incarcerated in the infamous Evin prison.

Pakistani news channel journalist, Sadaf Naeem was killed on Sunday, October 30, after falling off the container carrying former Pakistan prime minister, Imran Khan.

Prominent journalist at KRIK investigative outlet media, Dragana Pećo, risks imprisonment over the exposure of secret deals of Nikolas Petrović.

CFWIJ vehemently condemns the unjust imprisonment of Than Lwin Thu and the ongoing suppression of press freedom in Myanmar.

The houses of 11 journalists, including 7 women, were raided by the police and detained after being subjected to police violence.

Ankara Cumhuriyet Başsavcılığı’nca yürütülen bir soruşturma kapsamında 7’si kadın 11 gazetecinin önce evi basıldı, sonra polis şiddetine maruz kalarak gözaltına alındılar.

While reporting on a demonstration against the construction of a bridge over the Danube River, Emilija Marić, editor-in-chief of Novi Sad TV, was the target of a physical attack.

Political analyst and journalist Negar Mortazavi has been the target of a bomb threat while being hosted as a panelist by the University of Chicago.

Respected Brussels correspondent for Polsat, Dorota Bawolek, is now facing a smear campaign and death threats.

It was around noon on Wednesday morning in Iran, when one of our sources informed the CFWIJ that another female journalist in Abadan had been arrested.

Photojournalist and documentary photographer, Sanna Irshad Mattoo, was prohibited from traveling to New York to receive the Pulitzer Prize award.

Photographer and independent reporter Stefanie Glinski has been forced to deport from Afghanistan and denied re-entry.

Yet another daunting week in Iran in the wake of the brutal killing of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini where protesters, most of whom are women, are relentless and so is the violent repressing committed by the state forces.

Independent blogger and human rights advocate Huynh Thuc Vy suffered a beating and strangling by prison guards.