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Following the closure of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Beijing (CBC) office this month, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges the Chinese regime to put an end to its policy of visa weaponisation against journalists and foreign correspondents.

As the climate has not one been one of its priorities, the Egyptian government has not harassed environmental journalists with any particular assiduity in the past, but they risk becoming targets now that Egypt is hosting the UN’s COP 27 from 6 November.

RSF calls for the immediate release of Younis Abdulsalam, a journalist who disappeared in August 2021 in Sanaa, in the northern part of Yemen that is controlled by Houthi rebels. The Houthi intelligence services now acknowledge holding him.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for urgent measures to ensure that media personnel are able to work safely without being targeted in Haiti, where no fewer than six journalists have been killed and many others attacked since the start of the year.

In response to the deterioration of press freedom since the start of the protests in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini on 16 September,  RSF has launched a new Iran Media Help Desk, in collaboration with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Dr Shirin Ebadi.

Vahid Shamsoddinnezhad has been held for more than a month in Iran without the authorities giving any grounds for his arrest or providing any other information about his detention. RSF is relaying his alarmed wife’s call for his immediate release.

In order to inspire a change of the legal framework for surveillance, RSF publishes the recommendations it submitted to the government.

uiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s presidential election victory is good news for press freedom in Brazil after Jair Bolsonaro’s nightmarish term as president, says Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

British-Egyptian blogger and political activist, Alaa Abdel Fattah, has announced after over 200 days of partial hunger strike, that he has escalated his protest to zero-calories a day, and from Sunday 8 November onward, he will no longer drink water.