Journalist Mario Guevara faces imminent deportation after US appeals court decision

New York, September 19, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists and Free Press express outrage that journalist Mario Guevara faces imminent deportation back to his native El Salvador after the Board of Immigration Appeals on Friday re-opened his 13-year-old immigration case, declining to release him on bond.  “We are outraged that journalist Mario Guevara was initially…

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Slemani News Network camera operator Sivar Baban struggles to breathe after being teargassed during a Kurdistan teachers’ protest on February 9.

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Hungarian journalist László Mézes receives medical treatment for a cut to his face (right) amid scenes of violent clashes in the Georgian capital Tblisi on September 8, 2025.

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