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On the second day of the 81st General Assembly of the Inter American Press Association (IAPA), the panel titled “Anatomy of Authoritarian Advance: Handbook of Tactics and Their Effect on the Media” was held, in which the strategies of authoritarian regimes to weaken press freedom in the region were presented.
The civil war in Sudan has displaced over 13 million people. It’s left more than 30 million in need of aid, of which just under 25 million are undergoing acute hunger. Within the vast scope of this humanitarian crisis, journalists on the ground in Sudan are being killed or displaced. This, in turn, is limiting the vital flow of information both inside and out of the country.
The main association monitoring attacks on journalists in El Salvador has become the latest victim of the country’s controversial Foreign Agents Law. The Salvadoran Journalists Association (APES, for its acronym in Spanish) announced on Oct. 1 that it will go into exile as a result of the law, which requires organizations receiving foreign funds to register with the government and levies large fines for those who don’t comply.
On September 22, the Václav Havel Library hosted a discussion titled “How to Run Media from Exile and Remain Relevant in Your Country – The Story of Mizzima and Myanmar’s Independent Media.” The event brought together Soe Myint, Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief of Mizzima, Toe Zaw Latt, General Secretary of the Independent Press Council of Myanmar, and No No Lin, Deputy Director of Mizzima Media.
Article on how intergovernmental organisations address the challenges faced by journalists in exile, highlighting threats like transnational repression, gaps in legal protection, and emerging support mechanisms. The United Nations Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity, adopted in 2012, does not even mention journalists in exile.
This research explores the gender and ethnicity-based challenges faced by Kurdish female journalists, focusing on their professional experiences in Turkey and in exile.
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.
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.
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.
With the announcement of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Iran and Israel (one both governments pledged to uphold conditionally, contingent on the other’s restraint), speculation has begun to shift from whether the conflict would escalate into full-scale regional war to whether this pause might create space for diplomacy, reconstruction, or even domestic reform in Iran.
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.