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RSF urges Hong Kong authorities to release radio host and political commentator Edmund Wan Yiu-sing, who was sentenced on 7th October 2022 to two years and eight months in prison

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) demands the immediate and unconditional release of Toru Kubota, a Japanese documentary filmmaker who has been sentenced to ten years in prison in Myanmar on charges of sedition and “causing fear”.

RSF condemns the murder of Nagihan Akarsel, a Kurdish magazine editor and influential feminist advocate, who was gunned down outside her home in Iraqi Kurdistan on 4 October. 

RSF urges the authorities to reverse this decision as soon as possible and allow the media to continue informing the Afghan people, as their basic human rights.

Attacks on the media have been one of the hallmarks of Jair Bolsonaro’s first term as Brazil’s president. Supported by an increasingly virulent base and backed by disinformation campaigns, he has undermined press freedom and the right to information...

Albanian prosecutors have banned the media from covering issues of public interest. RSF urges the authorities to avoid disproportionate measures and deplores the fact that journalists have been threatened with imprisonment for violating these bans.

RSF and nine other NGOs sent a joint letter to the United States Congress urging them to impose sanctions upon Hong Kong individuals and Chinese regime officials involved in the raids and closure of Apple Daily.

On the International Day for Universal Access to Information, RSF calls on the Iranian government to immediately stop the suppression of journalists, to release the ones in detention and to restore the network integrity.

The Iranian authorities' recent efforts to suppress journalists are extremely concerning. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Iranian authorities to stop the crackdown on journalists and to release those detained.