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In response to the French Council of State's ruling, the French broadcasting regulator recognised its legal authority over Eutelsat's transmission of three Russian propaganda TV channels, and ordered it to stop broadcasting them, as requested by RSF.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) hails Senegalese journalist Pape Alé Niang’s provisional release two weeks after RSF secretary-general Christophe Deloire visited him in prison, and calls on the Senegalese authorities to drop all the charges against Niang

Burmese reporter and political columnist Sithu Aung Myint has been given an additional seven-year jail term, bringing his combined sentence to 12 years in prison.

On 12 December in Paris, the 30th RSF award ceremony honoured Iranian journalist Narges Mohammadi for her courage, Ukrainian journalists Mstyslav Chernov and Yevhen Maloletka for their impact, and Moroccan journalist Omar Radi for his independence.

For 45 days, journalist Tawfik al-Mansouri, detained in Sana'a, was tortured. He and two other journalists sentenced to death in 2020 by the Houthis were locked up in solitary confinement and abused for several weeks.

RSF urges for the release of Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai, a symbolic figure of press freedom in Hong Kong, who received today an additional 5 years and 9 months for “fraud”.

In response to a request by RSF, France’s Council of State has overruled French broadcasting regulator ARCOM’s assertion that it lacks the legal authority to order Eutelsat to stop transmitting the signals of Russian propaganda media on its satellites.

In tweets earlier this week that were later deleted, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s son, Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, threatened to “crush” journalists who “abuse” him. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by his alarming comments.

RSF warns that unless the National Security Bill is changed, journalists who share leaked official information in the public interest could face imprisonment if they belong to organisations that receive funding from other countries.