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In solidarity with journalists in Palestine
Reporters covering the ongoing assault of Gaza and Lebanon are under unprecedented attack. The Israeli military has killed more journalists in Palestine than in any previous war. Press freedom groups are speaking out.
The Courage Foundation has helped organize a coalition of news outlets, press freedom groups, and more than 100 journalists to coauthor a letter to the U.S. State Department, condemning U.S. complicity in the Israeli killing of Palestinian journalists covering the ongoing assault in Gaza and Lebanon. The U.S. must immediately cease sending weapons to Israel in light of the country’s widespread killing of Palestinian reporters and refusing entry to foreign press, a clear attempt to shield their actions from public scrutiny.
Read more about the coalition and our letter to U.S. Sec. Antony Blinken →
Julian Assange is free!
Finally, after 5 years of abusive conditions in a maximum security prison, and after a dozen total years of arbitrary detention of one kind or another, WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange is finally free.
Courage has campaigned against the persecution and prosecution of Assange since our inception, from our liveblog monitoring developments leading up to his arrest in 2019 to organizing and leading Assange Defense, the U.S. campaign to spread awareness about the danger Julian’s prosecution posed to the First Amendment and to help secure his release.
After 5 grueling years of activists campaigning around the world, lawyers fighting for his rights in various jurisdictions, and Assange’s own personal fortitude surviving brutal conditions in prison, he is finally free, back in his home Australia.
Read more about Julian’s freedom here, the campaign victory here, and the full support site here→
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News
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Senate fails to pass PRESS ActThe Protect Reporters from Exploitive State Spying Act would protect journalists against government surveillance and the forced disclosure of their confidential sources
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VIDEO: Gabriel Shipton on MSNBC, says Biden should pardon Assange to protect press freedomAssange’s brother speaks to Ayman about what a pardon would mean for Julian personally and for press freedom more broadly
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Trump’s re-election and the war on journalismDonald Trump is poised to return to the White House, and press freedom groups are sounding the alarm about what his election means for the state of journalism. Courage joins these groups in standing up for truthtellers, for journalists’ right to publish, and for your right to know, regardless of which party is in power.
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Drop charges against Indian Time journalist Isaac WhiteCourage has joined more than 20 national and local press freedom and civil liberties organizations calling on the DOJ to drop the charges brought against Indian Time reporter Isaac White.
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Daniel Hale to receive the inaugural Ellsberg Whistleblower AwardThe first to receive the International Ellsberg Whistleblower Award will be Courage Foundation beneficiary Daniel Hale, former Air Force and NSA intelligence analyst who revealed the clandestine drone assassination program of the Obama administration.
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Press freedom groups write to US embassy in Israel over detained US journalist Jeremy LoffredoThe Courage Foundation has signed on to the following letter alongside Defending Rights & Dissent and the Freedom of the Press Foundation to express our concern to the US Embassy in Jerusalem over the ongoing detention of U.S. journalist Jeremy Loffredo.
This week in press freedom
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January 4-10British judge orders prosecutors to come clean on Assange case; Gaza journalists demand end to Israel’s impunity; Article 19 calls on Israel to stop targeting press; Israel kills writer and journalists Mohammad Hijazi and cameraman Saed Abu Nabhan; Journalist Richard Medhurst faces years in prison for refusing to hand over passwords to UK police
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December 28, 2024 – January 3, 2025Israel kills another journalist in Gaza; The Palestinian Authority suspends broadcast of Al Jazeera in the West Bank; Reporter attacked as hostility to journalists rises in the U.S.
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December 21-27, 2024Israel kills five journalists in one attack in Gaza; Israel threatens Al Jazeera correspondent
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December 14-20, 2024U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Journalist arrests surge in 2024; Israel kills three Palestinian journalists in 24 hours; Two Kurdish journalists killed in a reportedly Turkish drone attack; Jesselyn Radack writes about the continued dangers for press freedom posed by the Espionage Act
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December 7-13, 2024IFJ calls 2024 a “particularly deadly” year for journalists; The PRESS Act fails to pass the Senate on unanimous consent; RSF’s 2024 Round-up: journalism suffers exorbitant human cost; Alleged CIA leaker ordered to stay in jail pending trail; RCFP: DOJ’s subpoenas for journalists’ records raise First Amendment concerns
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November 30 – December 6, 202412 Senators write to Sec. Blinken: “prioritize journalists’ immediate access to Gaza”, Trump advisers renew push for pardon of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Israel attacks journalists in Lebanon hours after ceasefire begins
Weekly recaps of the latest attacks on journalists and journalism →