Catching up with: Yariel Valdés González Editor's note: Last year, Global Journalist talked to two journalists who had been detained for long periods of time despite entering the U.S....
Project Exile: Turkish journalist still fearful in Germany "I try to live isolated to protect myself." When she got her start in the news business in 2009, Turkish journalist Zübeyde Sari couldn't have...
Project Exile: Editor gets asylum in Germany after Erdogan cover "It is not a very comfortable and luxurious life in Germany, but it's better than prison." If there's one exiled journalist whose life encapsulates...
Project Exile: Reporter escaped Russia after beating, burns "Please leave. They're going to kill you." Fatima Tlisova didn't make it easy for the Russian government to get rid of her. As a reporter...
Project Exile: Criticizing Kurdish referendum leads to exile "He told me to either leave or they would beat me very terribly." Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region has long had a reputation in the West as a...
Project Exile: Moroccan journalist flees after being stripped, jailed "The police broke down the door of my apartment and forced me to undress." When the security software on Moroccan journalist Hicham Mansouri's...
Project Exile: Tajikistan harasses reporter into exile "I knew that they have just one goal: they want to see me out of journalism." The calls came to Tajik journalist Humayra Bakhtiyar at her sports...
Project Exile: Editor escaped Sri Lanka after husband’s murder "You really feel like your country has betrayed you." Sonali Samarasinghe remembers the last words of her husband, Lasantha Wickrematunge, on the...
Project Exile: Turkish journalist lost home and family "One thing is broken: my heart." When Turkish journalist Arzu Yildiz reported a major scoop in 2014, she had little idea that the story might lead...
Project Exile: Threatened in Mexico, Facing Deportation in U.S. Mexican soldiers sent a reporter a warning. Now the U.S. wants to send him back. On a sunny day in June 2008 in the small city of Ascensión in...