An active dossier of 2,507 journalists, photojournalists, editors, and bloggers currently detained, prosecuted, or missing — drawn live from the Committee to Protect Journalists, Reporters Without Borders, and our partner organizations across Russia, Belarus, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Myanmar, Israel/OPT, and dozens of other jurisdictions where the press is under attack.
These records contain only the structured fields source organizations publish — name, country, employer, charges, arrest date. They do not include the longer narratives in the main Political Prisoner Database. For the full case files maintained by CPJ, see cpj.org/data.
Abdallah Muqdad is a journalist with Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) in Syria. Imprisoned as of July 1, 1980; charges: Anti-state.
Marwan Hamawi is a journalist with Syrian News Agency (SANA) in Syria. Imprisoned as of July 1, 1975; charges: No Charge Disclosed.