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The controversial re-election of President Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela will “worsen” attacks on the press, said Artur Romeu, the Latin America director of Reporters Without Borders (RSF). He also warned of an escalation in the persecution of journalists in Nicaragua.
Three years after mass protests in Cuba, exiled journalist José Jasán Nieves Cárdenas reports facing new threats from Havana. The editor of the independent news website El Toque is among dozens of journalists and activists who say they continue to endure harassment and intimidation.
When forcing journalists into exile fails to silence them, authoritarian governments turn to transnational repression. Read here how Cuban repression has followed editor José Jasán Nieves Cárdenas to the United States.
At least 300 journalists have fled Nicaragua, Ecuador and Guatemala and gone into exile in recent years, according to various press freedom organizations. Numbers from Venezuela are unavailable, but that country has experienced a mass exodus of millions, including journalists.
On June 18, 2024, Kazakhstani opposition journalist Aidos Sadykov, who received political asylum in Ukraine 10 years ago, was shot outside of his Kyiv apartment. Meduza shares an abridged translation of a report by Mediazona Central Asia on who Sadykov was, why he was forced into exile, and what we know about his murder.
Four years after the enactment of a draconian national security law – a turning point in the decline of press freedom in Hong Kong – Reporters Without Borders (RSF) takes a closer look at the plight of exiled journalists and calls for greater support for their diaspora-led media.
With conflict, repression and censorship driving large numbers of media into exile, VOA spoke with journalists on the front lines: from navigating gang violence in Ecuador, assassination plots targeting Iranian journalists on British and U.S. soil, and repressive policies affecting Afghan media.
This documentary explores the systematic suppression of media and freedom of expression by authoritarian regimes in Russia, Turkey, and Belarus and the state of exiled journalism – through interviews with journalists, who risk their lives to uphold the truth.
At least 26 governments have targeted journalists abroad, according to Freedom House, which has identified 112 incidents against journalists from 2014 to 2023, including assault, detention, unlawful deportation, rendition, and assassination. For some journalists, leaving the country might not always guarantee safety.
Ethiopian journalist Belete Kassa fled the country after his colleague Belaye Manaye was detained in a desert military camp. As crackdowns on the press escalate, dozens of Ethiopian journalists face exile, harassment, and threats.
The Iranian diaspora is hopelessly divided. The historian and political scientist Arash Azizi on the failure of the protests, the influence from exile and dealing with reformers.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and its local partner, the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM) warn that Syria, ranked 179/180 on the world press freedom index, remains as dangerous as ever for news professionals and calls for the protection of Syrian journalists in exile.
In Nicaragua, journalism has been persecuted, censored, and criminalized by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo since 2018. By 2022, several journalists were in jail for practicing their profession, many of them had been assaulted by the Police and regime sympathizers, and three independent media outlets—La Prensa, CONFIDENCIAL, and 100% Noticias—had been closed and confiscated, and dozens of journalists had gone into exile to avoid prison.
Lázaro Yuri Valle Roca, a Cuban independent journalist who had been imprisoned in Cuba since 2021 because of his reporting, was released Wednesday on the condition that he leave the island for exile in the United States.
From Russia to Sudan, rising authoritarianism and threats to press freedom are driving a growing number of journalists to flee their home countries and try to resume their work from abroad. Media organizations in democratic countries have a collective duty to support them.
A large-scale surveillance program covertly operated by the Turkish Foreign Ministry’s intelligence arm has been targeting critical and independent journalists living in exile in Europe, the United States and Canada, as revealed by confidential documents obtained by Nordic Monitor.
Journalists living in exile in Kenya are finding support to continue working in their professions, thanks to a fellowship provided by media groups. For Voice of America Victoria Amunga visited the hub in Nairobi.
Thousands of journalists have fled their home countries in recent years to escape political repression, save their lives and escape conflict – but in exile they are often vulnerable to physical, digital and legal threats, a U.N. investigator said.