Days before the polls, journalists also faced attack or were denied access to cover election preparations, CPJ has reported.

The Dainik Dinkal, a Bengali-language daily broadsheet, was forced to stop publishing Monday after its printing license was canceled.

The company runs thousands of tests each year to assess any potential changes to its search engine, he added.

In the U.S., journalists often pivot from one tragedy to the next.

Staff at the agency flagged concerns to managers in November shortly after the two journalists — Harry Knyagnitsky and Daria Davydova — were hired.

When the current prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, was returned to power in 2009, Bangladesh was ranked 121st out of 180 countries in RSF's World Press Freedom Index.

Specialized in post-Soviet countries, Pablo González was covering the war in Ukraine and the refugee crisis on the Ukrainian-Polish border for Spanish media like the newspaper Público and the TV channel La Sexta when he was arrested.

The United States is ranked 42nd out of 180 countries in RSF’s 2022 World Press Freedom Index

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) deplores Meta’s decision to follow Twitter’s lead by launching a paid identity verification service for Facebook and Instagram. This is a dangerous tool that introduces two-tier access to information on social media and should be withdrawn, RSF says.

Sazandegi, which is often critical of the authorities, was closed on 20 February when it ran a front-page story headlined “Meat riots” about the government’s mishandling of escalating meat prices. The story had a big impact in Iran.

CPJ’s calls and text messages to the INEC national spokesperson, Festus Okoye, and his Osun State counterpart, Oluwaseun Osimosu, went unanswered.

At least 44,000 people were killed by the 6 February earthquake and the aftershocks in the days that followed. The victims included around 30 journalists in the Antakya, Adiyaman and Kahramanmaras regions.