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List of imprisoned, detained and missing journalists

This list encompasses imprisoned, detained and missing journalists around the world.

Imprisoned

List of journalists who were imprisoned:

  • Reubin Clein (1905–1989) – American journalist imprisoned in Florida in 1950
  • M. A. Farber – American journalist imprisoned in New York City in 1978
  • Evan Gershkovich (born 1991) – American journalist imprisoned in 2023 in Russia
  • Brian Karem (born 1961) – American journalist imprisoned in Texas in 1990
  • Alsu Kurmasheva (born 1976), Russian-American journalist imprisoned in Russia in 2023
  • Vanessa Leggett (born 1968) – American journalist detained by U.S. federal judge for failing to disclose sources
  • Judith Miller (born 1948) – American journalist imprisoned in Washington, D.C., for refusing to testify against sources
  • Jason Rezaian (born 1976) – Iranian-American journalist imprisoned in Iran from 2014 to 2016
  • Steven Sotloff (1983–2014) – American-Israeli journalist imprisoned in Iran in 2013 and killed in 2014 by ISIS
  • Jim Taricani (1949–2019) – American politician imprisoned in Rhode Island in 2004
  • Marie Torre (1924–1997) – American journalist imprisoned in New York in 1958
  • Ali Ünal (born 1955) – Turkish journalist who was imprisoned in 2018
  • Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada – American journalists imprisoned in California
  • Josh Wolf (born 1982) – American journalist imprisoned in California

Detained

List of journalists who were detained:

  • Maziar Bahari (born 1967) – Iranian journalist who was detained in 2009
  • Amy Goodman (born 1957) – American journalist detained following protest
  • Austin Tice (born 1981) – American journalist detained without trial in Syria in 2012

Missing

List of journalists whose current whereabouts are unknown, or whose deaths are unsubstantiated:

  • Tokbergen Abiyev – Kazakh journalist who staged his own abduction
  • Kazem Akhavan – Iranian photojournalist who went missing in 1982
  • Isam al-Shumari – German journalist who went missing in 2004
  • Muhammad al-Maqaleh Aleshteraki – Yemeni journalist who went missing in 2009
  • Ali Astamirov – Chechen journalist who went missing in 2003
  • Jaime Ayala – Peruvian journalist who went missing in 1986
  • Adama Bayala – Burkinabé journalist who went missing in 2024
  • Andrei Bazvluk – Ukrainian journalist who went missing in 1996
  • Ambrose Bierce (born 1842) – American journalist who went missing in 1913
  • Jean Bigirimana – Burundian journalist who went missing in 2016
  • Gamaliel López Candanosa – Mexican journalist who went missing in 2007
  • María Esther Aguilar Cansimbe – Mexican journalist who went missing in 2009
  • Causeway Bay Books disappearances, five staff members from Hong Kong bookstore went missing in 2015
  • Moisés Sánchez Cerezo – Mexican journalist who went missing in 2015
  • Pirouz Davani (born 1961) – Iranian journalist who went missing in 1998
  • Prageeth Eknaligoda – Sri Lankan journalist
  • Joey Estriber – Filipino journalist
  • Jesús Medina Ezaine – Venezuelan photojournalist who went missing in 2017
  • Bashar Fahmi – Jordanian national journalist who went missing in 2012
  • Irma Flaquer (born 1938) – Guatemalan journalist who went missing in 1980
  • Sean Flynn (born 1941) – American photojournalist declared missing in Cambodia in 1970
  • José Antonio García – Mexican journalist who went missing in 2006
  • Azory Gwanda – Tanzanian journalist who went missing in 2017
  • Mohamed Hassaïne (born 1945) – Algerian journalist who went missing in 1994
  • Reda Helal – Egyptian journalist who went missing in 2003
  • Jodi Huisentruit (born 1968) – American journalist who went missing in 1995 and was declared dead in 2001
  • Sergei Ivanov – Russian journalist who went missing in 1995
  • Lukin Johnston (1887–1933) – Canadian journalist who went missing following an interview with Adolf Hitler in 1933
  • Jamshid Karimov (born 1967) – Uzbekistani journalist who went missing in 2006
  • Guy-André Kieffer (born 1949) – French-Canadian journalist who wet missing in 2004
  • Acquitté Kisembo – French journalist who went missing in 2003
  • John Lake (born 1930) – American journalist who went missing in 1967
  • Frank Lenz (born 1867) – American bicyclist and photojournalist went missing near the Ottoman Empire in 1894
  • Pirí Lugones (1925–1978) – Argentine journalist who went missing in 1977
  • Ebrima Manneh (born 1978) – Gambian journalist who was held secretly in custody in 2006
  • Rafael Ortiz Martínez – Mexican journalist who went missing in 2006
  • Primitivo Mijares (born 1931) – Filipino journalist who went missing in 1977
  • Belmonde Magloire Missinhoun – Congolese journalist who went missing in 1998
  • Alfredo Jiménez Mota (born 1980) – Mexican journalist who went missing in 2005
  • Manasse Mugabo – Rwandan journalist who went missing in 1995
  • Emmanuel Munyemanzi – Rwandan journalist who went missing in 1998
  • Milan Nepali – Nepalese journalist
  • Frédéric Nérac (born 1960) – French journalist who went missing in 2003
  • Juanita Nielsen (born 1937) – Australian journalist
  • Vadivel Nimalarajah – Sri Lankan journalist
  • Oralgaisha Omarshanova (born 1968) – Kazakh journalist who went missing in 2007
  • Serge Oulon – Burkinabé journalist who went missing in 2024
  • Madan Paudel – Nepalese journalist
  • Oleksandr Panych – Ukrainian journalist who went missing in 2002
  • Charlotte Peet – British journalist who went missing in Brazil in 2025
  • Gerardo Paredes Pérez – Mexican journalist who went missing in 2007
  • Yelena Petrova – Ukrainian journalist who went missing in 1996
  • Zane Plemmons (born 1982) – Mexican-American journalist who went missing in 2012
  • Subramaniam Ramachandran, Sri Lankan journalist
  • Ahmed Rilwan (1986–2014) – Maldivian journalist
  • Sergio Landa Rosado – Mexican journalist who went missing in 2013
  • Victoria Roshchyna (1996–2024) – Ukrainian journalist declared missing in 2023 and confirmed dead in 2024
  • Maksim Shabalin – Russian journalist who went missing in 1995
  • Zeenat Shahzadi – Pakistani journalist
  • Vitaly Shevchenko – Ukrainian journalist who went missing in 1996
  • Chitra Narayan Shrestha – Nepalese journalist
  • Andrew Shumack – American journalist who went missing in 1995
  • Djuro Slavuj – Kosovan journalist who went missing in 1998
  • Feliks Titov – Russian journalist who went missing in 1995
  • Kalifara Séré – Burkinabé journalist who went missing in 2024
  • Jonathan Spollen (born 1983) – Irish journalist who went missing in 2012
  • Dana Stone (born 1939) – American photojournalist declared missing in Cambodia in 1970
  • Rodolfo Rincón Taracena – Mexican journalist who went missing in 2007
  • Elyuddin Telaumbanua – Indonesian journalist who went missing in 2005
  • Prakash Singh Thakuri – Nepalese journalist
  • Moataz Wadnan – Egyptian journalist who went missing in 2021
  • Susan Walsh (born 1960) – American journalist who disappeared from New York in 1996
  • Mauricio Estrada Zamora – Mexican journalist who went missing in 2008
  • Evaristo Ortega Zárate – Mexican journalist who went missing in 2010
  • Dzmitry Zavadski (born 1972) – Belarusian journalist who went missing in 2000
  • Jarosław Ziętara (born 1968) – Polish journalist who went missing in 1992

See also

Further reading

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