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Joel T. Reyes, the former Philippine governor suspected of ordering the assassination of journalist Gerry Ortega in 2011, surrendered to the police after 13 years on the run. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and a coalition of NGOs call for a swift trial.

RSF shares the testimony of a Uyghur journalist exiled in the United States, whose friends still in China were detained in retaliation for his work.

On 13 August, former Radio Azatlyk correspondent Khudayberdy Allashov succumbed after eight years of torture and harassment, all because he spent three months working for an independent media.

Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan, previously imprisoned for four years for her independent reporting on  the Covid 19 outbreak, is missing again and was reportedly recently taken to a detention facility in Shanghai for unclear reasons.

On 31 July, Al Jazeera journalists Ismail al-Ghoul and Rami al-Rifi were killed while reporting in Gaza. The next day, the Israeli army claimed that al-Ghoul was part of the military wing of Hamas.

RSF calls for the immediate release of two Myanmar journalists, whose heavy sentences on trumped-up terrorism charges were only recently made public.

RSF is appalled by the fatal shooting of two independent Myanmar journalists, Win Htut Oo and Htet Myat Thu, by junta soldiers in the southern state of Myanmar.

Five journalists killed, 131 imprisoned, 77 convicted of “insulting the president” and hundreds prosecuted for practising their profession…

Thirteen journalists have been arrested and at least 16 others attacked while covering major protests against the cost of living crisis in Nigeria. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns these targeted attacks.