List of imprisoned, detained and missing journalists

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 • Brian Karem (born 1961) – American journalist imprisoned in Texas in 1990 • Vanessa Leggett (born 1968) – American journalist detained by U.S. federal judge for failing to disclose sources • 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 • 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 • Muhammad al-Maqaleh Aleshteraki – Yemeni journalist who went missing in 2009 • 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 • Jean Bigirimana – Burundian journalist who went missing in 2016 • Gamaliel López Candanosa – Mexican journalist who went missing in 2007 • 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 • Pirouz Davani (born 1961) – Iranian journalist who went missing in 1998 • Prageeth Eknaligoda – Sri Lankan journalist • Joey Estriber – Filipino journalist • 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 • Mohamed Hassaïne (born 1945) – Algerian journalist who went missing in 1994 • 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 • Jamshid Karimov (born 1967) – Uzbekistani journalist who went missing in 2006 • Guy-André Kieffer (born 1949) – French-Canadian journalist who wet missing in 2004 • 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 • Belmonde Magloire Missinhoun – Congolese journalist who went missing in 1998 • Manasse Mugabo – Rwandan journalist who went missing in 1995 • Serge Oulon – Burkinabé journalist who went missing in 2024 • Gerardo Paredes Pérez – Mexican journalist who went missing in 2007 • Subramaniam Ramachandran, Sri Lankan journalist • Victoria Roshchyna (1996–2024) – Ukrainian journalist declared missing in 2023 and confirmed dead in 2024 • Maksim Shabalin – Russian journalist who went missing in 1995 • Dana Stone (born 1939) – American photojournalist declared missing in Cambodia in 1970 • Susan Walsh (born 1960) – American journalist who disappeared from New York in 1996 • Mauricio Estrada Zamora – Mexican journalist who went missing in 2008 • Dzmitry Zavadski (born 1972) – Belarusian journalist who went missing in 2000 • Jarosław Ziętara (born 1968) – Polish journalist who went missing in 1992 ==See also==