US-Kuwaiti journalist leaves Kuwait after release from detention, US official says

Mr Ahmed Shihab-Eldin had been visiting family in Kuwait and was arrested on March 3. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Straits Times

@Geri
#cpj numbers are lower than #wikipedia's because they don't count "Hamas-affiliated" media outlets (whose employees can be called "combatants" by #hasbara shills with impunity).
As part of my #EoB installation, I've hung 279 #MemorialNameTags for #reporters killed in #Gaza (since they were printed at the beginning of the #CeaseFire we're allegedly in now, the last dozen tags were hand written).

5 more have been killed since.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_the_Gaza_war

https://photos.nandn.org.il/piwigo/index.php?/category/29

#kuwait #usa #israel #iran : #warofaggression / #journalism / #freedomofspeech / #repression / #cpj

„The journalist, A. Shihab-Eldin (…) was arrested (…) while visiting Kuwait. His #detention, which was condemned by international rights groups, highlighted restrictions on media coverage in the Persian Gulf (…). The Committee to Protect Journalists described those charges as “vague & overly broad accusations that are routinely used to silence independent journalists.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/world/middleeast/kuwait-journalist-acquitted.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dFA.Em20.xFi-b0O9ueL2&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Journalist Detained in Kuwait After Posting About Iran War Is Acquitted

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, a Kuwaiti-American journalist, is expected to be released soon, after 52 days in detention, a lawyer for two of his family members said.

The New York Times

The Committee to Protect Journalists (#CPJ) is calling for an urgent international investigation into the killing of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil, alleging that #Israel's failure to allow timely medical access may constitute a war crime and highlighting a pattern of targeted attacks and obstruction of rescue efforts. Regional Director Sara Qudah stated that a culture of impunity in #Gaza is fueling a similar pattern in #Lebanon and urged the international community to hold Israel accountable.

https://cpj.org/2026/04/cpj-calls-for-urgent-international-investigation-into-israels-killing-of-lebanese-journalist-amal-khalil/

#warcrimes #presefreedom

CPJ calls for urgent international investigation into Israel’s killing of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil - Committee to Protect Journalists

New York, April 23, 2026—Israel’s failure to allow medical crews access to injured Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil in time to save her may constitute a war crime, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Thursday. Khalil, a reporter for the privately owned local daily newspaper Al-Akhbar, was on assignment documenting the aftermath of attacks in...

Committee to Protect Journalists
Kuwaiti U.S. journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin detained in Kuwait after social media posts
The Committee to Protect Journalists is calling for the release of Kuwaiti American journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin after he was detained in Kuwait over social media posts during military escalations in the Iran war.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ahmed-shihab-eldin-journalist-kuwait-detention-social-media-posts-9.7163008?cmp=rss
#Tunisie L'avocate Sonia Dahmani est libre mais toujours condamnée à 18 mois d eprison. #CPJ demande l'annulation de sa condamnation https://cpj.org/2026/04/cpj-condemns-18-month-sentence-against-tunisian-commentator-sonia-dahmani/
CPJ condemns 18-month sentence against Tunisian commentator Sonia Dahmani - Committee to Protect Journalists

New York, April 13, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Tunisian authorities to repeal the April 13 appeals court decision to uphold the conviction of Tunisian political commentator and lawyer Sonia Dahmani while reducing her sentence to 18 months in prison. Dahmani is currently free, but she risks being arrested at any moment, her...

Committee to Protect Journalists
Journalist deaths reach new high in 2025 — CPJ

Altogether 129 journalists and media workers were killed worldwide in 2025, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said Wednesday in an annual report. That makes 2025 the deadliest year for press deaths since the CPJ began collecting such data more than 30 years ago. "Journalists are being killed in record numbers at a time when access…

IwPost

The First Casualty

They told you Iran's missiles were being swatted from the sky. They told you the Iron Dome was holding, the Patriot batteries were working, US and Israeli air power was surgical and winning. They told you this on the ABC. They told you this on Sky. They were telling you nonsense. MIT Professor Ted Postol — the man who proved the Patriot missile failed in the Gulf War while presidents were claiming a 97 percent success rate — has now established that current intercept rates against Iranian missiles run at a few percent at most. The systems are depleting. The decoys are multiplying. The official story is, in his own carefully chosen word, a fraud. The first casualty of war is truth. But the deeper insight, the one Phillip Knightley identified fifty years ago, is that the lies are not random. They serve purposes. And right now, they are serving purposes that Australians have every right to examine.

https://urbanwronski.com/2026/03/11/the-first-casualty-2/

Le nombre de journalistes tué-es atteint un record en 30 ans ; #Israël serait responsable des deux tiers selon le #CPJ. La #LDH rappelle que cibler la presse, c’est attaquer la liberté d’informer, et appelle à une enquête indépendante pour que justice soit rendue.

https://www.courrierinternational.com/article/medias-israel-serait-responsable-de-la-mort-des-deux-tiers-des-journalistes-tues-dans-le-monde-en-2025_241045

Israël serait responsable de la mort des deux tiers des journalistes tués dans le monde en 2025

Selon un rapport publié ce mercredi 25 février par le Comité pour la protection des journalistes, les forces armées de l’État hébreu seraient responsables de la mort de 86 journalistes et travailleurs des médias en 2025. Soit deux tiers du total des journalistes tués dans le monde l’année dernière.

Courrier International

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #genocide / #journalismus / #newscoverage / #warcorrespondents / #targetedkillings / #impunity

„Of the 129 journalists killed around the world in 2025, the Israeli military was responsible for 86, about two-thirds of the deaths, the #CPJ found. The #deathtoll is the highest since the New York-based press freedom group started tracking the killing of journalists in 1992.“

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/02/26/journalists-killed-2025-cpj-israel-gaza-drones/

Journalists slain at record level in 2025, majority by Israel, watchdog says

An increasing number of journalists were killed by drones, the Committee to Protect Journalists said. The IDF said it “strongly rejects” the group’s findings.

The Washington Post