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List of imprisoned, detained and missing journalists
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This list encompasses imprisoned, detained and missing journalists around the world.
Imprisoned
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List of journalists who were imprisoned:
- Reubin Clein (1905–1989) – American journalist imprisoned in Florida in 1950[1]
- M. A. Farber – American journalist imprisoned in New York City in 1978[1]
- Evan Gershkovich (born 1991) – American journalist imprisoned in 2023 in Russia[2]
- Brian Karem (born 1961) – American journalist imprisoned in Texas in 1990[1]
- Alsu Kurmasheva (born 1976), Russian-American journalist imprisoned in Russia in 2023[3]
- Vanessa Leggett (born 1968) – American journalist detained by U.S. federal judge for failing to disclose sources[1]
- Judith Miller (born 1948) – American journalist imprisoned in Washington, D.C., for refusing to testify against sources[1]
- Jason Rezaian (born 1976) – Iranian-American journalist imprisoned in Iran from 2014 to 2016[4]
- Steven Sotloff (1983–2014) – American-Israeli journalist imprisoned in Iran in 2013 and killed in 2014 by ISIS[5]
- Jim Taricani (1949–2019) – American politician imprisoned in Rhode Island in 2004[1]
- Marie Torre (1924–1997) – American journalist imprisoned in New York in 1958[1]
- Ali Ünal (born 1955) – Turkish journalist who was imprisoned in 2018[6]
- Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada – American journalists imprisoned in California[1]
- Josh Wolf (born 1982) – American journalist imprisoned in California[1]
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Detained
List of journalists who were detained:
- Maziar Bahari (born 1967) – Iranian journalist who was detained in 2009[7]
- Amy Goodman (born 1957) – American journalist detained following protest[8]
- Austin Tice (born 1981) – American journalist detained without trial in Syria in 2012[9]
Missing
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List of journalists whose current whereabouts are unknown, or whose deaths are unsubstantiated:
- Tokbergen Abiyev – Kazakh journalist who staged his own abduction[10]
- Kazem Akhavan – Iranian photojournalist who went missing in 1982[11]
- Isam al-Shumari – German journalist who went missing in 2004[11]
- Muhammad al-Maqaleh Aleshteraki – Yemeni journalist who went missing in 2009[11]
- Ali Astamirov – Chechen journalist who went missing in 2003[12]
- Jaime Ayala – Peruvian journalist who went missing in 1986[13]
- Adama Bayala – Burkinabé journalist who went missing in 2024[14]
- Andrei Bazvluk – Ukrainian journalist who went missing in 1996[11]
- Ambrose Bierce (born 1842) – American journalist who went missing in 1913[15]
- Jean Bigirimana – Burundian journalist who went missing in 2016[16]
- Gamaliel López Candanosa – Mexican journalist who went missing in 2007[11]
- María Esther Aguilar Cansimbe – Mexican journalist who went missing in 2009[17]
- Causeway Bay Books disappearances, five staff members from Hong Kong bookstore went missing in 2015[18]
- Moisés Sánchez Cerezo – Mexican journalist who went missing in 2015[19]
- Pirouz Davani (born 1961) – Iranian journalist who went missing in 1998[20]
- Prageeth Eknaligoda – Sri Lankan journalist[21]
- Joey Estriber – Filipino journalist[21]
- Jesús Medina Ezaine – Venezuelan photojournalist who went missing in 2017[22]
- Bashar Fahmi – Jordanian national journalist who went missing in 2012[23]
- Irma Flaquer (born 1938) – Guatemalan journalist who went missing in 1980[24]
- Sean Flynn (born 1941) – American photojournalist declared missing in Cambodia in 1970[25]
- José Antonio García – Mexican journalist who went missing in 2006[17]
- Azory Gwanda – Tanzanian journalist who went missing in 2017[26]
- Mohamed Hassaïne (born 1945) – Algerian journalist who went missing in 1994[11]
- Reda Helal – Egyptian journalist who went missing in 2003[27]
- Jodi Huisentruit (born 1968) – American journalist who went missing in 1995 and was declared dead in 2001[28]
- Sergei Ivanov – Russian journalist who went missing in 1995[11]
- Lukin Johnston (1887–1933) – Canadian journalist who went missing following an interview with Adolf Hitler in 1933[29]
- Jamshid Karimov (born 1967) – Uzbekistani journalist who went missing in 2006[30]
- Guy-André Kieffer (born 1949) – French-Canadian journalist who wet missing in 2004[11]
- Acquitté Kisembo – French journalist who went missing in 2003[11]
- John Lake (born 1930) – American journalist who went missing in 1967[31]
- Frank Lenz (born 1867) – American bicyclist and photojournalist went missing near the Ottoman Empire in 1894[32][33]
- Pirí Lugones (1925–1978) – Argentine journalist who went missing in 1977[34]
- Ebrima Manneh (born 1978) – Gambian journalist who was held secretly in custody in 2006[35]
- Rafael Ortiz Martínez – Mexican journalist who went missing in 2006[11]
- Primitivo Mijares (born 1931) – Filipino journalist who went missing in 1977[36]
- Belmonde Magloire Missinhoun – Congolese journalist who went missing in 1998[11]
- Alfredo Jiménez Mota (born 1980) – Mexican journalist who went missing in 2005[37]
- Manasse Mugabo – Rwandan journalist who went missing in 1995[11]
- Emmanuel Munyemanzi – Rwandan journalist who went missing in 1998[11]
- Milan Nepali – Nepalese journalist[21]
- Frédéric Nérac (born 1960) – French journalist who went missing in 2003[11]
- Juanita Nielsen (born 1937) – Australian journalist[21]
- Vadivel Nimalarajah – Sri Lankan journalist[21]
- Oralgaisha Omarshanova (born 1968) – Kazakh journalist who went missing in 2007[38]
- Serge Oulon – Burkinabé journalist who went missing in 2024[14]
- Madan Paudel – Nepalese journalist[21]
- Oleksandr Panych – Ukrainian journalist who went missing in 2002[11]
- Charlotte Peet – British journalist who went missing in Brazil in 2025[39]
- Gerardo Paredes Pérez – Mexican journalist who went missing in 2007[11]
- Yelena Petrova – Ukrainian journalist who went missing in 1996[11]
- Zane Plemmons (born 1982) – Mexican-American journalist who went missing in 2012[40]
- Subramaniam Ramachandran, Sri Lankan journalist[21]
- Ahmed Rilwan (1986–2014) – Maldivian journalist[21]
- Sergio Landa Rosado – Mexican journalist who went missing in 2013[41]
- Victoria Roshchyna (1996–2024) – Ukrainian journalist declared missing in 2023 and confirmed dead in 2024[42]
- Maksim Shabalin – Russian journalist who went missing in 1995[11]
- Zeenat Shahzadi – Pakistani journalist[21]
- Vitaly Shevchenko – Ukrainian journalist who went missing in 1996[11]
- Chitra Narayan Shrestha – Nepalese journalist[21]
- Andrew Shumack – American journalist who went missing in 1995[11]
- Djuro Slavuj – Kosovan journalist who went missing in 1998[11]
- Feliks Titov – Russian journalist who went missing in 1995[11]
- Kalifara Séré – Burkinabé journalist who went missing in 2024[14]
- Jonathan Spollen (born 1983) – Irish journalist who went missing in 2012[43]
- Dana Stone (born 1939) – American photojournalist declared missing in Cambodia in 1970[25]
- Rodolfo Rincón Taracena – Mexican journalist who went missing in 2007[11]
- Elyuddin Telaumbanua – Indonesian journalist who went missing in 2005[11]
- Prakash Singh Thakuri – Nepalese journalist[21]
- Moataz Wadnan – Egyptian journalist who went missing in 2021[44]
- Susan Walsh (born 1960) – American journalist who disappeared from New York in 1996[45]
- Mauricio Estrada Zamora – Mexican journalist who went missing in 2008[17]
- Evaristo Ortega Zárate – Mexican journalist who went missing in 2010[46]
- Dzmitry Zavadski (born 1972) – Belarusian journalist who went missing in 2000[47]
- Jarosław Ziętara (born 1968) – Polish journalist who went missing in 1992[48]
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