In just the past year, the Taliban’s recapture of Afghanistan and Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has put journalists in heightened danger. Meanwhile, press freedom today is deemed “very bad” in a record 28 countries, according to the 2022 World Press Freedom Index by Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Authoritarian regimes in China, Iran and Belarus, to name a few, continue to stifle free speech and the independent media.
Alongside these developments, journalists’ safety is increasingly at risk. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has documented 541 journalists killed and another 1,123 imprisoned worldwide in the past decade alone.
The Journalists in Distress (JiD) Network seeks to offer a helping hand to journalists in danger.
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