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In this photo from May 3, 2018, Afghan residents light candles to pay tribute to Afghan journalists killed three days earlier in a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)
December 19, 2018, 9:43 am
53 journalists killed worldwide so far in 2018
Committee to Protect Journalists says number of reporters killed in retaliation for their work nearly doubled from 2017
By Verena Dobnik
Then Republican congressional candidate Greg Gianforte looks on during a campaign meet and greet at Lions Park, on May 23, 2017, in Great Falls, Montana. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
October 19, 2018, 7:54 pm
Trump praises lawmaker for bodyslamming a journalist
Greg Gianforte attacked Jewish journalist Ben Jacobs in 2017; later apologized and announced a $50,000 donation to the Committee to Protect Journalists
By JTA
Syrian government soldiers ride in an infantry-fighting vehicle in the town of Saida in the west of Daraa province on July 7, 2018. (Youssef Karwashan/AFP)
July 11, 2018, 8:47 pm
Media activists fear for their lives in southwestern Syria
Committee to Protect Journalists says there are 70 opposition reporters in areas that could soon fall to hostile regime forces
By Bassem Mroue
The Rawda mosque, roughly 40 kilometers (nearly 25 miles) west of the North Sinai capital of El-Arish, after a gun and bombing attack, November 25, 2017.(AFP)
May 23, 2018, 3:05 am
Egypt sentences Sinai jihadi expert to 10 years in prison
Journalist Ismail Alexandrani accused of giving up state secrets during lectures and media appearances abroad
By AFP
In this May 25, 2017, file photo, Greg Gianforte celebrates his win over Rob Quist for Montana's open congressional seat in Bozeman, Mont. (Rachel Leathe/Bozeman Daily Chronicle via AP, File)
June 8, 2017, 9:44 am
Newly elected congressman sorry for assaulting Jewish reporter
Montana Representative Greg Gianforte vows to donate $50,000 to Committee to Protect Journalists
By Matt Volz
Egyptian judge Mohammed Shirin Fahmy, second right, reads the verdict against former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, in a makeshift courtroom at the national police academy, in an eastern suburb of Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, June 18, 2016. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
June 19, 2016, 4:25 am
Egypt sentences two Al-Jazeera employees to death
Rights groups decry inclusion of journalists in espionage case linked to banned Muslim Brotherhood
By Hamza Hendawi
Flags of member nations flying in front of United Nations headquarters in New York, September 25, 2015. (JTA/Michael Gottschalk/Photothek via Getty Images)
May 27, 2016, 6:31 am
Press freedom watchdog denied UN credentials
China, Russia, Sudan among those voting against UN access for Committee to Protect Journalists; US, Israel vote in favor
By Michael Astor
File: Turkish journalists stand behind a banner reading "If you have a free press, there is a free society -- the Gaztec organizations G9 Platform" (a journalists' association) as they protest against attacks on journalists and in support of freedom of the press during a demonstration in Ankara on May 3, 2014. (Adem Altan/AFP)
December 24, 2015, 5:14 am
Media watchdog urges Turkey to halt press crackdown
17 journalists currently imprisoned in Turkey amid surge in violence in Kurdish areas
By AP
Illustrative undated image posted on a militant website on January 14, 2014, shows Islamic State fighters marching in Raqqa, Syria. (AP, File)
December 17, 2015, 1:48 am
Anti-IS group says 1 of its journalists killed in Syria
Ahmad Mohamed al-Mousa is latest member of advocacy group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently to be assassinated
By AP
File: This Dec. 7, 2011 photo, shows Hossam Bahgat in his office at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights in Garden City, Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Sarah Rafea)
November 10, 2015, 1:19 am
Egypt’s military holding journalist in unknown location
Hossam Bahgat, a leading investigative reporter and human rights advocate, accused of ‘compromising national security’
By Brian Rohan
Illustrative: Turkish soldiers wait at a check point in Diyarbakir on July 26, 2015. (AFP/Ilyas Akengin)
September 2, 2015, 1:11 am
‘Turkey arrested journalists to deter foreign media’
Two Brits and one Turk working for Vice News held by Ankara on terror-related charges
By Suzan Fraser
A man with tape on his mouth attends a demonstration in front of a court to support Ahmed Mansour, a senior journalist with the Qatar-based broadcaster Al-Jazeera, June 22, 2015. (AP/Markus Schreiber, File)
June 25, 2015, 11:40 am
Watchdog flays Egypt for ‘unprecedented’ threats to reporters
Committee to Protect Journalists says Cairo government clamps down on critical voices, gags sensitive stories
By AP
American journalist James Foley, kneeling in orange, in a video released by the Islamic State, which apparently showed him being beheaded by his captor, August 19, 2014. (screen capture: YouTube/News of the World)
December 23, 2014, 8:16 am
Foreign journalist deaths soar in Syria, Ukraine
Committee to Protect Journalists says quarter of 60 reporters killed in 2014 were international correspondents
By AFP
Al-Manar TV journalists cameraman Mohammed Mantash, left, reporter Hamza al-Haj Hassan, center, and technician Halim Allaw, right, who were killed while covering the battle between the Syrian government forces and rebels, in the Syrian town of Maaloula, Syria, Monday, April 14, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Al-Manar TV)
April 17, 2014, 2:28 am
Watchdog: Rise in targeted media killings in Syria
Committee to Protect Journalists says 60 reporters have been slain in ongoing civil war, 61 kidnapped
By AP
Egyptian army soldiers in armored vehicles block Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, ahead of expected mass rallies, on August 23, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Amr Nabil)
January 25, 2014, 4:06 pm
US citizen, Egyptian filmmaker detained in Cairo
Jeremy Hodge, 26, of LA and Hossam Eddin el-Meneai held by police for three days without charge, lawyer says
By Laura Dean
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