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Journalist Hassan Ahmed Berkia hasn’t returned to Sudan since the start of the civil war pitting the leader of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the head of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo. Hassan was on a visit in the United Arab Emirates when the war broke out on April 15, 2023.
Having previously exposed abuses such as illegal mining and drug trafficking as a reporter for El Universal, Joseph Poliszuk has since led a trailblazing and courageous team as co-founder of Venezuela’s pioneering investigative journalism outlet Armando.info.
A new UN report reveals that Iran threatens journalists across Europe, deeply affecting them and their families. Europe is doing too little in response. One of Iran’s most popular TV stations operates from London due to censorship at home. Journalist Mojtaba Pourmohsen fled to London but still faces death threats from Iran’s Revolutionary Guard—even in exile.
As the Trump administration ramps up immigration arrests, flooding the streets of Los Angeles with masked agents, it is simultaneously stripping half a million people of humanitarian protections that allowed them to enter the country legally — essentially turning them into undocumented immigrants and threatening to deport them.
Records of exile are kept by the organizations that bring together victims. According to data from APES and the Central American Network of Journalists (RCP for its initials in Spanish), at least 47 journalists left El Salvador between May and July 2025.
In 2018, the administration of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) ushered in an era of reform, freeing exiled media and releasing imprisoned journalists. Yet the hope that these measures promised a renaissance for journalism was short-lived. Since the outbreak of conflict in Tigray in 2020, the environment has sharply deteriorated.
Even in exile, Egyptian journalist Basma Mostafa cannot escape her country’s grip: surveillance, intimidation, and threats have trailed her from Cairo to Germany. In Geneva, she tells a story that exposes the growing reach of transnational repression.
How the “Journalists in Exile” program strengthens press freedom: Nazeeha Saeed explains why independent journalism should not be taken for granted. Nazeeha Saeed has lived in exile since 2016—first in Paris, now in Berlin. In her home country of Bahrain, she could no longer work as a journalist.
In a feature for LatAm Journalism Review, Silvia Higuera reveals how misogynistic online campaigns – from the #malqueridas hashtag to rape threats – push Central America’s women journalists further into exile. Their credibility, sources, and safety are under siege, even beyond borders.
In democratic nations, journalism plays the role of a watchdog. It questions authority, exposes corruption, and gives a voice to the voiceless. But in authoritarian states like the Islamic Republic of Iran, media is not a platform for truth—it is a platform for power.
With the freeze on USAGM’s funding in March, scores of Washington-based foreign reporters were suddenly left jobless or in limbo. Many of them had come to Washington not only to help report on the U.S. government for their home audiences, but also to use American free speech protections to report on corruption and repression in their own countries.
Sudanese journalists forced into exile in Uganda are risking their safety to report on the war back home, ensuring the conflict remains in the global spotlight. Despite limitations, international support is emerging, with the Thomson Foundation offering programmes for civil society organisations and journalists in conflict zones, focusing on crisis communication, advocacy, resilience, and the disproportionate impact of conflict on women in media and civil society.
After almost 14 years of civil war, the lightning overthrow of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad in December has unleashed the possibility of returning home for hundreds of exiled journalists. Complex legal and family obligations, security concerns, and sectarian tensions mean permanent return is rarely an option.
For fourteen years, the organization operated in secrecy and exile. Team members risked their lives daily, working under bombardment and surveillance, and facing the constant threat of arrest. Three colleagues remain forcibly disappeared to this day — their absence a painful reminder of the price paid for pursuing truth under the former regime.
Exiled journalist Mahtab Qolizadeh highlights the struggles of Iranian asylum seekers in Germany, caught between bureaucracy and uncertainty. As the Iran-Israel conflict deepens, many—like political dissident Alborz Zahedi—remain in limbo, hoping for change but facing a system that offers little clarity or relief.
At JHR, forcibly displaced people are recognized as among the most vulnerable and marginalized. Their stories are often overlooked, their rights de-prioritized. Journalists play a key role in changing that—which is why JHR trains and equips them to report on the realities of displacement and amplify refugees’ voices.
The Iranian regime has launched a fresh wave of intimidation against exiled Iranian journalists and their families back home, dissident media workers and human rights advocates claim. Earlier this week, the BBC publicly accused the Iranian government of escalating its long-standing harassment of journalists working for its Persian-language service.
A relentless crackdown over the past 18 months has eradicated any semblance of independent media from authoritarian Azerbaijan. But as President Ilham Aliyev casts critical journalists as enemies of the state, they continue to try to hold power to account — from exile, or even from behind bars.