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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”.

RSF and a coalition of 48 human rights NGOs urge the Chinese government to respect human rights, including freedom of the press, especially in the context of the current protests against the regime’s zero-Covid policy.

Freelance reporter Myo San Soe’s record 15-year prison sentence on “terrorism” charges constitutes yet another escalation in the terror that Myanmar’s military junta is inflicting on journalists.

Christophe Deloire, the secretary-general Reporters Without Borders (RSF), succeeded in visiting jailed Senegalese journalist Pape Alé Niang in a prison outside Dakar

RSF urges for the release of Jimmy Lai, Apple Daily founder and 2020 RSF Press Freedom laureate, who has now been detained for two years in Hong Kong.

RSF urges for the release of ailing investigative journalist and 2004 RSF Press Freedom Award laureate Huang Qi, who was arrested six years ago and is at high risk of dying if kept in detention.

Appeal by RSF and unions of sports journalists on eve of kick-off

As the Iranian regime continues its crackdown on the protests initiated by Mahsa Amini's death, almost half of all newly arrested journalists are women, including two who are facing the death penalty.

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.