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The news website Rappler announced on 29 June that it had received a shutdown order. This is a new attack on the independent media after the Philippine government ordered the blocking of the websites Bulatlat and Pinoy Weekly on 17 June.

RSF is appalled by the disproportionate and intimidatory methods used this week by the French judicial authorities against Alex Jordanov, a journalist alleged to have revealed “defence secrets” in a 2019 book about the DGSI.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is alarmed by the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern province of Nord-Kivu, where both government forces and M23 rebels are targeting journalists in the course of their clashes.

Since the forced shutdown one year ago of Apple Daily, Hong Kong’s largest Chinese language opposition newspaper, seven of its staff members, including its founder Jimmy Lai, are still being detained.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of Alaa Abdel Fattah, an Egyptian blogger and political activist whose health is worsening by the day as a result of the hunger strike he began on 2 April, more than 70 days ago.

At least 12 journalists were arrested in Afghanistan in May although the Taliban announced the creation of a system for protecting media personnel.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is unveiling the portraits of journalists who are arbitrarily detained in Belarus, where media personnel have been hounded by the regime ever since the disputed election held on 9 August 2020.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the six-month prison sentence that a court in the Algiers district of Sidi M’hamed imposed on media director Ihsane El Kadi on 7 June for an editorial.

Dom Phillips, a British journalist, and Bruno Araújo Pereira, a Brazilian expert in his country’s indigenous communities, have been missing in the Javari Valley region in the far west of Brazil’s Amazonas state since 5 June.