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The Courage Foundation is an international organization that supports those who risk life or liberty to make significant contributions to the historical record. We fundraise for the legal and public defense of specific individuals who fit these criteria and are subject to serious prosecution or persecution. We also campaign for the protection of truthtellers and the public’s right to know generally. Read more →


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 →

“Palestinian journalists filming the Israeli bombing of civilian neighborhoods” by Osps7 is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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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Press Freedom Blog

  • April 12-18
    A Palestinian artist and photojournalist killed by a direct Israeli military strike; Four journalists sentenced to jail in Russia; Another Columbia student taken into custody
  • April 5-11
    Attacks on journalists double in Germany, finds RSF; Israel bombs media tent, killing two; 15 years since the publication of ‘Collateral Murder’
  • March 29 – April 4
    Israel’s war on Gaza deadliest conflict for media workers in recorded history, Press freedom groups condemn detention of Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk
  • March 22-28
    CPJ condemns Israel’s killing of 2 more Gaza journalists, Journalists Hossam Shabat and Mohammad Mansour killed in Israeli attack on Gaza
  • March 15-21
    Three journalists killed in Israel’s renewed attacks on Gaza. The strikes reportedly targeted a humanitarian relief team accompanied by journalists and photographers
  • March 8-14
    ICE Leaks: Trump Officials Push For Criminal Charges Against Whistleblowers And Press, Pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil abducted and detained by ICE, Owner of UC Global which spied on Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy is investigated for falsifying evidence

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