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Since June 18, Iran has been experiencing a total internet blackout, the most severe since 2019, according to monitoring group NetBlocks. More than 90 million people currently have no access
Salvadoran journalist Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning reporter known for his immigration coverage on the Facebook news channel MGnews, was arrested in Atlanta while livestreaming protests against Trump administration’s ICE raids
On May 20, 2025, El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly, dominated by President Nayib Bukele’s party, passed a controversial foreign agents law that could severely undermine press freedom and civil society in
Protests erupted across Los Angeles last Friday in response to sweeping immigration raids conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in neighborhoods with large Latino populations. The enforcement actions
Since November 2023, at least five independent media outlets in Hong Kong, including Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP), InMedia, The Witness, ReNews, and Boomhead have been hit with retroactive tax
On Monday, May 5, a dozen armed men stormed the Smile FM radio station in Zwedru, the capital of eastern Grand Gedeh County, with the apparent intent to attack broadcast
Shatha Hajj Mubarak, a journalist imprisoned in Messaadin Prison in Sousse since July 2023 for her work with Instalingo, a media production company, has begun an open-ended hunger strike as
On the morning of May 12, 2025, Pope Leo XIV held his first audience with the international press in the Vatican City. The most applauded moment came when he addressed
Last Saturday, May 3rd, marked World Press Freedom Day. At Free Press Alliance, we couldn’t let this day pass without paying tribute to the journalists around the world who have
On April 17, the office of Addis Standard, a news outlet based in Ethiopia, was raided by six plainclothes officers claiming to be police. Although they stated they had warrants,
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