Wael al-Najjar
Gaza City, Palestine
Killed while documenting strike damage near a densely populated urban corridor.
PRESS SAFETY / ACCOUNTABILITY / DOCUMENTATION RISK
Track killed, imprisoned, and missing journalists across active war zones and coercive information environments. This monitor emphasizes employer exposure, geospatial concentration, and recent case context.
Gaza City, Palestine
Killed while documenting strike damage near a densely populated urban corridor.
Kharkiv, Ukraine
Killed during renewed shelling after filming emergency-response activity.
Tehran, Iran
Imprisoned after publishing corruption reporting tied to security-linked entities.
Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Missing after traveling toward the frontier to verify troop-movement claims.
Mandalay, Myanmar
Imprisoned in a sweeping arrest wave targeting local conflict documentation teams.
Culiacan, Mexico
Killed after reporting on cartel coercion and municipal security failures.
Mogadishu, Somalia
Killed while covering an Al-Shabaab assault and the follow-on security response near Mogadishu.
Davao City, Philippines
Killed after documenting police and vigilante violence linked to drug-war operations in Mindanao.
Kabul, Afghanistan
Imprisoned after continuing local reporting on arrests, media restrictions, and public-life rollbacks under Taliban rule.
Urumqi, China
Imprisoned after reporting on surveillance, detention patterns, and restrictions affecting communities in the Uyghur region.
Manaus, Brazil
Killed while covering illegal logging routes, land conflicts, and deforestation pressure across the Amazon basin.
Diyarbakir, Turkey
Imprisoned on terrorism-related allegations after covering operations and civilian impact in the Kurdish southeast.