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When politicians or businessmen like Abakar Manany are able to circumvent the law by using blatantly deceitful tactics to censor verified information and suspend an online media outlet, a dangerous precedent is set.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges the authorities to end their persecution of journalists and to provide an explanation for Castro’s disappearance.

The fifth rule of law report highlights the threats to media independence and the safety of journalists in the EU's member states. RSF calls on the European Commission to use all available means to oblige states to uphold press freedom.

The violent advancement of the M23, an armed rebel group, is creating a disturbing information desert in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). RSF demands that all armed parties stop holding local radio stations hostage immediately.

The death threats made against journalists on the far-right website Réseau Libre mark a new level of anti-press hatred in France. Reporters Without Borders (RSF), together with the victims and multiple media organisations, have filed a lawsuit.

Dmytro Gordon — whose YouTube news channel targeting Russian speakers is available from RSF’s Svoboda satellite package, which brings reliable news to populations barraged by propaganda and censorship — has been sentenced in Russia.

As the Iranian presidential elections take place today 28 June, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) demands that the future government immediately ceases the relentless, multifaceted repression of journalists.

Two French journalists received threats which they believe were sent by the Chinese police, following the release of their documentary on a dissident from China. RSF is alarmed by Beijing’s repeated transnational repression against journalists.

In the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which is in the throes of armed conflict, members of the national army have taken over the premises of two community radio stations and set up military positions there within a week.