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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Annie Kelly

UNCOVERED: Female journalists under attack as press freedom falters - Caught on Camera

Two young women in headscarves seen on a screen
The Iranian reporters Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi, who were jailed for 17 months for reporting on Mahsa Amini. Iran jails the most female journalists. Photograph: C Assi/AFP/Getty

Female journalists are at the “epicentre of risk” as attacks on press freedom intensify around the world.

According to organisations representing women in journalism, the past year has seen an escalation of smear campaigns; racist and gendered attacks; detentions; deportations; censorship; and police violence levelled at female journalists, which is leading to a “chilling” silencing of women’s voices in the media landscape.

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