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 Ahmed Shihab-Eldin (born 1984) – American-Kuwaiti journalist briefly imprisoned in Kuwait in 2026 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 Ming Chan – South China Morning Post journalist who went missing in 2023 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 List of Americans wrongfully imprisoned or detained abroad

Further reading 2024 ROUND-UP: Journalists killed, detained, held hostage and missing (EN/RU/UK) World Abuses Barometer by Reporters Without Borders

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