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Ukrainian journalist Dmytro Khyliuk — arrested in March 2022 — is still being held in the Vladimir region of Russia, according to a man that spent a year sharing Khyliuk’s prison cell.

Ashraf Omar, a cartoonist for the Egyptian online news site Al-Manassa, was arrested at his home on the night of July 21, blindfolded, and taken to an unknown location.

A court in Kazan, Russia sentenced Alsu Kurmasheva to six-and-a-half years in prison on 19 July for disseminating “false information” about the Russian army.

A Russian court has sentenced American journalist Evan Gershkovich, a reporter with The Wall Street Journal, to 16 years in prison on trumped-up charges of espionage. 

Prague-based Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reporter Alsu Kurmasheva has been held in Russia since October 18, 2023.

In an astonishing statement, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, the head of Burkina Faso’s government, announced he’d forcibly conscripted a journalist at a time when four media professionals are currently missing.

The Myanmar regime is ruthlessly targeting every employee of the independent media Development Media Group and two staff members, Htet Aung and Soe Win Aung, have been falsely accused of supporting terrorist activities and sentenced to 5 years in prison.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) welcomes this long-awaited opinion from the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD).

The protests against changes to the Uzbek constitution, which took place two years ago in the autonomous region Karakalpakstan and were violently repressed by the central government, remain such a taboo topic that journalists who recall the facts today ar