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Chief Global Affairs Officer at Committee to Protect Journalists - @pressfreedom.bsky.social | Dominican born, New York bred; lover of freedoms & strategizing for good. Views personal.
Four journalists, including AP freelancers, were detained in Cameroon on Tuesday while reporting on migrants deported there by the Trump administration.
They were released, but their devices were confiscated.
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CPJ calls for accountability in Ukrainian journalist surveillance allegations cpj.org?p=563509
19.02.2026 21:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Palestinian journalist Shadi Abu Sido was detained in the notorious Sde Teiman prison for over 100 days. “Sde Teiman is a cemetery of the living, with torture no one can imagine, not even the human mind,” he told CPJ.
Read CPJ's new special report: cpj.org/special-repo...
@jameeljaffer.bsky.social is clear—when President Trump attacks freedom of the press, he's attacking the American people.
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It will be hard. The details are bone chilling, but please read what's happened to the people, the journalists, who have been serving as primary witness, recording and informing the world about what's happening in #Gaza and the #WestBank. cpj.org/special-repo...
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Despite having worked on human rights violations globally for years, I continue to be dismayed by how one violation unleashes a chain of others, and how lacking investigations and impunity for these acts normalize this horror. (2) cpj.org/special-repo...
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Today, @pressfreedom.bsky.social published the testimonies of 59 Palestinian journalists who provide horrendous details about how they were brutalized in Israeli prisons. Most of them (49) were never even charged with a crime. (1)
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🧵 New special report: CPJ collected 59 testimonies from Palestinian journalists released from Israeli custody since October 7, 2023. All but one reported being subjected to torture, abuse, or other forms of violence for their work. ⤵️
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Exclusive: The US State Department is developing an online portal to enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda, sources told Reuters reut.rs/4cySsA6
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Coming February 19, 2026, at 3:00 a.m. ET/9 a.m. CET 👇
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What a consolation, a rallying cry for dignity and rights. Thank you, U2 for this creation, for your conscience and for choosing to include @pressfreedom.bsky.social as an org you support. On this Ash Wednesday, this Catholic press freedom fighter is so moved. Read, Listen, Act!♥️✊
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Thank you, Georgia Fort. #ThisIsJournalism #ProtectThePress!
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New report: On February 19, 2026, CPJ will release a special report documenting the conditions Palestinian journalists report experiencing while in Israeli detention. The report draws on in-depth interviews from 59 Palestinian journalists released since October 7, 2023. cpj.org/2026/02/cpj-...
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As @pressfreedom.bsky.social data shows, 95 journalists who reported on corruption are currently behind bars. Explore their cases here: cpj.org/data/impriso...
17.02.2026 02:55 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Thank you, @anticorruption.bsky.social for showing so clearly the deadly nexus of #pressfreedom and corruption. Corrupt interests are so threatened by the journalists exposing their abuse of power that they also ensure good reporting is met with imprisonment. (1)
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Democracies that once did well in the Corruption Perceptions Index 2025 are now slipping.
Anti-corruption safeguards in countries like the U.S., United Kingdom and France are weakening fast.
Read more ⬇️ #CPI2025 www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2025
"Widely considered Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most reliable advocate in the EU, Orbán has maintained warm relations with the Kremlin despite its war against Ukraine while building ties with Trump..." apnews.com/article/rubi...
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For those following U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio's support #Hungary's PM, Viktor Orbán, take a look at his impressive repression record in regards to #pressfreedom which is widely known as the illiberal playbook to silence factual, critical reporting 👇 cpj.org/europe/hunga...
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CPJ has nominated imprisoned Philippine journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio for @unesco.org’s 2026 Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, in recognition of her outstanding courage, commitment to journalism, and defense of press freedom in the face of adversity.
Read more: cpj.org/2026/02/cpj-...
Pakistan’s government has stepped up the use of in absentia convictions and arrest warrants against Pakistani journalists living overseas since late 2025, highlighting an escalating crackdown by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s government on critical reporting and commentary.
16.02.2026 14:01 — 👍 3 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
🚨 New from @hrw.org: #UN member states should select a champion of #HumanRights as the next UN Secretary-General as the UN faces a crisis amid a global retreat on rights & democracy. - by Widad Franco
12.02.2026 14:16 — 👍 17 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0After immense struggle, setbacks and injustice for committing journalism, Jose Ruben Zamora will return to house arrest rather than the harsher and outrageous condition of being behind bars. It's time for freedom. Viva #ZamoraLibre! 👇
12.02.2026 22:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Freed Venezuelan journalist says time behind bars ‘made me feel desperate’ cpj.org?p=561038
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🇷🇸 #Serbia: IPI joins the @mediafreedomeu.bsky.social in raising alarm over recent cyber attacks targeting the social media accounts of Serbian newsrooms. We call for clear, enforceable guarantees from Meta to protect both freedom of expression & public’s right to know.
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Six years after the killing of journalist Léo Veras, there is still no justice. Today, Media Defence and IDEA took his case to the IACHR, challenging Paraguay’s failure to properly investigate and prosecute those responsible for this grave crime.
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