The Coalition For Women In Journalism mourns with loved ones of TV anchor Priya Juneja who was found dead in her New Delhi home last friday.

Rappler founder Maria Ressa sent the prosecutor today an 18 page affidavit concerning the second cyber libel complaint filed by businessman Wilfredo Keng.

TVA journalist Kariane Bourassa was covering an anti-mask demonstration when she was physically harassed and intimidated by two men in Quebec on July 26. They interrupted her live broadcast and resorted to hugging while she was reporting in the field. Protesters neither wore masks nor did they care about social distancing protocols during the demonstration.

“İnternet Ortamında Yapılan Yayınların Düzenlenmesi ve Bu Yayınlar Yoluyla İşlenen Suçlarla Mücadele Edilmesi Hakkında Kanunda Değişiklik Yapılmasına Dair Kanun” Çarşamba günü TBMM’den geçti.

“The Proposal for the Amendment of the Law on the Arrangement of Internet Publication and Combating Crimes Committed Through These Publications’’ was passed by the Justice Committee and enacted by Turkish Grand National Assembly last Wednesday.

Sidra Ghyas, a Lahore based Samaa TV reporter, was verbally and physically assaulted by accomplices of a religious scholar called Allama Zubair Ahmed Zaheer. The scholar is deemed to be self proclaimed, and was found to be instructing men to attack the journalist. She was going home after work when the incident happened. Sidra filed a First Information Report (FIR) after the incident.

More than 70 editorial staff members walked out of the Index headquarters on Friday, July 24 in mass resignation to protest the arbitrary dismissal of their editor-in-chief Szabolcs Dull. The decision was taken by the president of the board of Index.hu, László Bodolai.

Le Soir’s feminist journalist Florence Hainaut was targeted with an online harassment campaign following her opinion piece about headscarf published on July 18.

Sloboden Pechat reporter Miroslava Bryns received threats on July 23 following her coverage on Covid-19. Miroslava wrote an article for her newspaper criticizing the way people behave amidst the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, detailing a crowded wedding scene in Tetovo and indicating that it is against the legislation related to the fight against the Covid-19.

The Coalition For Women In Journalism is immensely worried about safety of feminist journalist Svetlana Anokhina following the death threats she received on July 22.

السعودية، يوليو 27،2020—غموض حول مصير سجينة الرأي والمدافعة عن حقوق النساء لجين هذلول لما يزيد عن شهرين. يطالب تحالف النساء العاملات بالصحافة السلطات السعودية بالكشف عن حالة لجين والإطلاق الفوري لسراحها.

Feminist Human Rights Defender and prisoner of conscience, Loujain A-Hathloul's fate remains ambiguous for over two months. The Coalition For Women In Journalism calls upon Saudi authorities to reveal details of Loujin’s condition and release her immediately.

The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of the United Nations Human Rights Council approved a resolution on May 1, calling the detention of journalists Lucía Pineda and Miguel Mora in December 2018 "arbitrary" and requested the government to remedy the situation through compensation.

The Regional Trial Court Branch 64 in Manila that is tasked with deciding on Maria Ressa and Rey Santos Jr.’s request for reconsideration on their cyber libel conviction, has denied the request on basis of lacking merit.

Khatira Sadargizi, a journalist for the European bureau of “REAL TV” suffered a horrific assault in a protest outside Azerbaijani Embassy in Brussels, on July 22. In the context of tension at the borders, a protest was held by a group of people of Armenian origin, living in Belgium. The demonstration held outside Azerbaijani Embassy turned violent between the two groups and several people suffered injuries. Reportedly, angry protestors used stones, sharp objects and explosive material in the scuffle that left six people severely bruised, including Khatira. She received a serious head injury and was hospitalized later.