; Whereas Russian authorities continue harassing and prosecuting journalists in exile, including— (1) exiled Russian journalists Ruslan Leviev and Michael Nacke, who were each sentenced in absentia to 11 years in prison in August 2023 for allegedly distributing fake information about the Russian military; (2) exiled Russian journalist Denis Kamalyagin, editor-in-chief of the exiled Russian newspaper Pskovskaya Guberniya, who was charged in late 2023 with failing to comply with the foreign agent law and with discrediting the Russian army; and (3) United States-based Russian-United States journalist and writer Masha Gessen, against whom Russia issued an arrest warrant in 2023 for allegedly spreading fake information about the Russian army; Whereas other Russian journalists living in exile have also been targets of harassment, surveillance, and suspected poisoning, including— (1) exiled Russian journalists Elena Kostyuchenko and Irina Babloyan, who reported in August 2023 that they may have been poisoned in Germany and Georgia, respectively; (2) Prague-based IStories’ reporters Alesya Marokhovskaya and Irina Dolinina, who received threats and fear they have been under surveillance; and (3) Galina Timchenko, the Latvia-based head of Meduza, whose phone was infected by Pegasus, a form of zero-click spyware produced by the Israeli company NSO Group, while she was in Germany in February 2023; Whereas, according to CPJ, the PRC had detained at least 44 journalists, as of December 1, 2023, is the world’s largest jailer of journalists according to Reporters Without Borders, and has unleashed an onslaught of attacks on press freedom in the PRC and Hong Kong, including through— (1) state-sponsored censorship and disinformation campaigns limiting access to information which runs contrary to Chinese Communist Party propaganda narratives, and censoring politically sensitive keywords on social media platforms