US EditionGlobal Crackdown On Media Deepens, Watchdog Warns
Reporters Without Borders reports 67 journalists killed and 503 imprisoned globally in 2025, with women comprising 77 of the detainees and war or organized crime causing most deaths.
- Reporters Without Borders' 2025 report found 67 media professionals killed, 503 journalists imprisoned, and 135 missing worldwide, including many after Assad's regime fell in Syria.
- The violence stems largely from war and organised crime, with 53 of the 67 victims so classified, while authoritarian repression and disappearances in Syria and Mexico worsen risks for journalists.
- Within the jailed cohort, RSF found 77 women among the 503 detained journalists, including 121 in China, 48 in Russia, and 47 in Myanmar.
- The report warns the environment for press freedom is deteriorating as reporters are portrayed as collateral victims and bargaining chips.
- The 2025 survey found the share of women journalists linking offline attacks to online abuse rose from 20% in 2020 to 42%, with nearly one in four facing AI‑assisted online violence and human‑rights communicators at 30%.
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67 journalists killed and increased online violence against women journalists
Two new reports confirm dangers that media professionals are facing. 67 media professionals have been killed over the last year, close to half of them (43%) in Gaza by Israeli armed forces, according to Reporters Without Borders (RsF). 70% of women journalists, activists and human rights defenders have experienced online violence in their work. Furthermore, 41% of them reported offline harm linked to online abuse, according to a report by by the…
“The journalists are not just killed – they are killed”, warns the Director General of Reporters Without Frontiers (RSF), Thibaut Bruttin, in the organisation’s new annual balance sheet. According to the data presented, 67 journalists have been killed because of their professional activity in the last year, and 503 others are in detention in 47 countries.
At least 53 of the 67 journalists killed in the past year were victims of war or criminal networks.
According to RSF, the Gaza Strip, Mexico, Ukraine, the Sudan and Syria are particularly dangerous countries and regions for journalists, and Russia has become the country with the largest number of foreign journalists imprisoned.
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