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On 18 December 2023, Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai, a symbol of press freedom in Hong Kong, will face trial under national security charges for which he could spend the rest of his life in prison.

After blocking access to social media and jamming several radio stations for several weeks, the Guinean authorities have suspended the broadcasting of three TV channels without warning on “national security” grounds.

RSF calls on the candidates to the 13 January 2024 presidential election, and all political parties running for the parliamentary election set on the same day, to commit to media reforms.

RSF together with other press freedom and journalists’ organisations ask the parliament and the president to reject the government-approved cut in RTVS’s funding by 30%.

RSF has communicated to the French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin its concern about France’s insistence on maintaining the national security exception in Article 4 of the EMFA.

Jimmy Lai, the founder of independent Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily, detained since December 2020, received honorary citizenship of the French city of Lyon on 9 December 2023.

RSF has called on members of the high-level European Union (EU) delegation to use the upcoming 24th EU-China summit to step up pressure on Beijing to obtain the release of jailed press freedom defenders.

RSF is greatly concerned over the disappearance of Minnie Chan, a reporter for Hong Kong daily South China Morning Post, who went missing in China.

The article on the protection of the confidentiality of sources and against the surveillance of journalists is the only major issue still outstanding in the negotiations on the proposed European Media Freedom Act’s final form.