At least 18 women journalists and activists have been arrested since demonstrations broke out after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was detained and beaten by Iranian morality police for violating the country's hijab law on September 16, 2022.

Gharidah Farooqi has been hit with yet another wave of online attacks, including organized online trolling by social media accounts purportedly linked to ousted prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party.

Twenty Kurdish journalists, seven of them women, were detained after simultaneous police raids in Diyarbakir early this morning.

Throughout the month of May 2022, the Coalition For Women In Journalism documented 40 cases of violations against women journalists.