Project Exile: Iranian student journalist fled after detention Omid Rezaee’s work on a university magazine led to his arrest In 2009, incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won Iran’s disputed election...
Project Exile: ‘Caged’ Egyptian journalist fled before sentencing "We have to stand up for each other, otherwise the whole profession is in jeopardy.” Yehia Ghanem had been near the pinnacle of Egyptian...
Project Exile: Turkish editor departs after police raid "I realize it was the best decision of my life because I would be imprisoned right now, like my colleagues." Shortly after Turkish police in riot...
Project Exile: Pakistani reporter moves to France after kidnap attempt "I was resisting and they kept hitting me with the butts of their guns." Jumping out of a car to escape being abducted at gunpoint by the Pakistani...
Project Exile: Uzbekistan continues ban on exiled journalist Hamid Ismailov was forced to flee Uzbekistan in 1992 for what the state dubbed "unacceptable democratic tendencies" Hamid Ismailov deserves an...
Project Exile: White Zimbabwean journalist grapples with post-Mugabe era Interviews with journalists forced from their home countries for doing their job. "The question is now, under the change of government, would I be...
Project Exile: After hunger strike, Egyptian journalist in Qatar fears return "I face probably a life sentence or maybe even worse. The idea of not being able to go back to your own country...is just...
Project Exile: After cartel kidnapping, Mexican cameraman fled to U.S. “What I prayed for was that if they killed me, they would leave my body in sight…That way I would not be a ‘desaparecido.’” The men from...
Project Exile: Turkey reporter stayed one step ahead of crackdown "It was part of the intimidation campaign to go after family members, including my mother." In hindsight, there were many clues that President Recep...
Project Exile: After colleague’s death, Russian journalist fears return “It said that all Russian journalists who support Ukraine might be killed. My name was on the list.” Kseniya Kirillova thought her stay in the...
