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States must stop Israel before all journalists in Gaza are silenced: UN experts

4 September 2025, GENEVA – UN experts* are outraged by the killing of six more Palestinian journalists — including two women — in multiple Israeli strikes in Gaza over the past 10 days. Mariam Abu Daqqa, a visual journalist who freelanced for the Associated Press was...

WATCH: Interview with Irene Khan on Israel’s killing of journalists and media workers in Gaza (Al-Jazeera)

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Gaza: UN experts appalled by murder of Al Jazeera correspondents in Israeli strike

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12 August 2025, GENEVA – The deliberate killing of four Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza, including correspondent Anas Al-Sharif, was an attempt to silence reporting on the ongoing genocide and starvation campaign in the besieged enclave, UN experts* said today,...

Iran: Experts deplore the death in custody of victim of arbitrary detention

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12 February 2025 – GENEVA – UN human rights experts* today expressed their dismay over the confirmation of the death in custody of Jamshid Sharmahd in Iran. The body of Sharmahd, who was reported to have died in custody in October 2024, has been released by Iran...

Interview: ‘Gaza is the deadliest conflict for media workers in over 30 years’

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Reposted from IPS-Journal: What global trends currently pose the greatest threat to freedom of expression? The greatest threat today is the backsliding of democracies. Authoritarian states have long maintained a totalitarian stance, systematically suppressing and...

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