China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not immediately respond to CPJ’s email requesting comment.

Bitik is at least the 14th journalist killed in Ukraine while reporting on the Russian invasion, according to the CPJ.

Close-up images of the notecard were captured by multiple news photographers in the Rose Garden.

Vietnam was one of the world’s worst jailers of journalists, with at least 21 behind bars, when CPJ conducted its annual prison census on December 1, 2022.

In July 2022, Taliban intelligence officers forced Australian journalist Lynne O’Donnell to tweet apologies for her previous coverage on Afghan women and girls and threatened her with jail time.

Samimi, 74, was previously detained on December 7, 2020, to serve a three-year sentence; he was released on January 26, 2023, according to CPJ research and news reports.

CPJ’s email to the Russian Investigative Committee’s Murmansk branch did not receive a response.

At least 10 Kurdish journalists were included in the crackdown, which also targeted politicians, lawyers, artists, and others.

In 2019, China arrested Australian blogger Yang Hengjun on espionage charges.

CPJ’s email to the Diyarbakır chief prosecutor’s office did not receive a response.

CPJ’s calls and text messages to the prosecutor, Samuel Mayowa, received no response.

Willingham said he twice spoke with his attorneys to be sure he was doing nothing illegal.

A Twitter page outlining the platform's policies on state-backed media appear to have been deleted, according to Al Jazeera.

Lindke sued Freed in federal court, also claiming his First Amendment rights were violated.