Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Washington to reopen probe into Shireen Abu Akleh killing

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Thursday called on US authorities to reopen the investigation into the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, an Al Jazeera correspondent who was shot dead in the occupied West Bank in May 2022. In a letter addressed to the US Department of Justice — which oversees the Federal Bureau of Investigation — and FBI chief Kash Patel, the committee said the FBI had opened an investigation into the incident in November 2022, “but no demonstrable progress” has been made. The committee added that “This troubling lack of concrete progress — four years after Abu Akleh’s death — represents a profound failure of the US government to respond promptly and impartially to the […]