236 published reports, reviewed and fact-checked by IAWRT.
Physical violence
Fourteen people were arrested for questioning, with credible evidence emerging that a female journalist was tortured by security forces. In a statement, the journalist, Raissa Oyasseko stated: 'I was severely tortured. They tied me up, beat me several times on my feet, thighs and buttocks.' Many have viewed the raid…
Arrest and Detention
Joy Doreen Biira, who was arrested in 2016 while covering the conflict in Kasese, Uganda. She reported on clashes between Ugandan forces and a local kingdom, which resulted in significant violence. Biira, a journalist working for KTN News in Kenya at the time, was accused of covering sensitive issues unauthorized, lea…
Digital threatsOnline disinformation and propaganda
Lourdes Walusala, a senior producer at Kenya Broadcasting Corporation traumatized by the online harassment forcing her to take breaks from social media as a way of self-sensor. Lourdes, who by then was in her third year of journalism practice, published an article on safe abortion which caught the attention of the pu…
Harassment and surveillanceDigital threats
Working as a woman journalist in Kenya was not easy. First you struggle with proving that you are indeed a professional. Most times we are treated like sort of flower girls, or bystanders to watch a news source, or someone waiting to be requested to go on dates by politicians. As a result of this treatment, I stopped …
Physical violenceIntimidation and threats +2
New York Times photographer Lynsey Addario is speaking publicly about sexual aggression she experienced while detained in Libya last month by forces loyal to Muammar Qaddafi. Addario was held for six days with Times colleagues Anthony Shadid, Stephen Farrell, and Tyler Hicks, all of whom were subjected to physical abu…
Physical violenceIntimidation and threats +2
It was just another breakfast time at Tripoli's smart Rixos Al Nasr hotel, sleepy foreign journalists helping themselves to cereals, rolls and terrible coffee in the restaurant, looking out over a neat garden unusual in the dour capital city. But the Groundhog Day conversations – more overnight coalition air strikes a…
Physical violenceHarassment and surveillance
"You can't have a #MeToo movement standing up for women and righting the wrongs of the past but say nothing about a female journalist who was gang-raped and almost died," the CBS News alum said Lara Logan is recounting her horrific 2011 rape in Egypt while she was covering the resignation of then-president Hosni Muba…
Physical violenceIntimidation and threats +1
The Libyan government should investigate allegations of sexual harassment in a state-run residence for women who had been orphaned instead of charging the journalist who reported the story with criminal defamation, Human Rights Watch said today. On October 21, 2009, Mohamed al-Sareet, a Libyan journalist, wrote on Je…
Harassment and surveillanceCensorship and legal action +1
On 6 February 2009, Mantoe Phakathi, a female journalist with the privately-owned Nation Magazine, was harassed and barred from covering the state opening of the Swazi Parliament for no other reason other than that she was female. Parliament officials, who included state journalists assigned to ensure that journalis…
Arrest and Detention
Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu (Amharic: ይርጋለም ፍስሃ መብራቱ; born in 1981) is recognized as one of Eritrea’s most talented poets, as well as a gifted writer and radio presenter. In 2009, she was detained by Eritrean authorities following a raid on Radio Bana, an educational radio station where she worked. The military detained…
Intimidation and threatsHarassment and surveillance +1
On 21 September 2026, a female photojournalist Chiraz Naili working for Nawaat went to collect what she believed was a delivery and was accompanied by two male colleagues for safety. Plainclothes security officers surrounded them, forced them into a vehicle, and took them to the National Guard’s central unit in El-Aou…
Physical violenceIntimidation and threats +7
Well-respected journalist for Sudan Bukra Channel, Halima Idris Salim, died when she was run over by a vehicle belonging to Rapid Support Forces (RSF) soldiers. Since war broke out in Sudan in April 2023, at least two women journalists have been killed. The Coalition For Women In Journalism is devastated by her loss a…
Physical violence
Kampala, Uganda, May 14, 2024—Ugandan authorities must credibly investigate an assault on broadcast journalist Juliet Kyarisiima, hold the perpetrators to account, and ensure that journalists covering public events do not face violence, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Tuesday. On the evening of May 12, in U…
Intimidation and threatsHarassment and surveillance +2
There are three reasons for people to attack me: I am a woman, I was born in Morocco and I am Muslim. Being attacked makes you very aware of what you are doing because you know the possible consequences and repercussions. The attacks are highly misogynistic and racist: the fact that I am a woman is used against me as…
Digital threatsOnline disinformation and propaganda
Journalist and blogger Lindsey Kukunda was a victim of digital harassment. Ugandan journalist and blogger Lindsey Kukunda says that in Uganda, it's a mentality problem: "Basically, women are respected less than men and they don't have the same social support.
Arrest and Detention
Sandra Muhoza was arrested after some back-and-forth on the WhatsApp group "Burundi Médias," which comprises journalists and other communicators close to the government. She commented on the news of the alleged distribution of machetes in certain country's localities. https://www.iwacu-burundi.org/la-journaliste-sand…
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