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In a world where information is power, the erosion of press freedom strikes at the core of democracy itself. In 2024, the fight for truth has never been more crucial, and the stakes have never been higher. “The decline of media freedom and the rise…
Women journalists Antonina Favorskaya, known for her independent reporting, and Olga Komleva, a dedicated correspondent for RusNews, were arrested in March on charges of “extremism” linked to the coverage of the trials of the Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny. If convicted, they will face up…
President Joe Biden said the United States would continue to “impose costs” on Russia for its imprisonment of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested one year ago.
Paul Beckett was the Washington Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal. But since the arrest of the newspaper’s Russia correspondent, Evan Gershkovich, last year in Russia on bogus spying charges, he has been working full time on advocating for the reporter’s release. In connection…
Diane Foley was repulsed by the thought of shaking the hand of the shackled prisoner seated in the courthouse room. As she prepared to meet Alexanda Kotey for the first time, the prospect of touching the terrorist who had beaten and helped murder her son…
On the 10th anniversary of journalist James Foley’s death, artist Bradley McCallum’s exhibition offers a chance for reflection
It’s been more than one year since Russia unjustly imprisoned the now 32-year-old Jewish Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. Though the Kremlin claims he is a spy, he is only guilty of doing his job as an honest journalist, reporting on Russian President Vladimir…
The mother of Mark Swidan, a Texas businessman who has been wrongfully detained in China, said she fears he may take his own life after more than a decade behind bars.
Julie Turkewitz and Federico Rios of The New York Times have been awarded the 2023 James Foley Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism for their exclusive coverage of migration through the Darién Gap, a 66-mile stretch of densely forested jungle across northern Colombia and southern…
Ten years after the murder of journalist James W. Foley in Syria by members of ISIS, community members, friends and students gathered on Wednesday at Northwestern University’s campus for the opening of “Inescapable Truths: James Foley’s Indelible Legacy.”
The Committee to Protect Journalists on Tuesday called for UK authorities to investigate the stabbing of an exiled Iranian television journalist in London and whether it could signal a new wave of cross-border repression by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
A court in Russia on April 1 extended the pretrial detention of RFE/RL journalist Alsu Kurmasheva until June 5.
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