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A quarter of a century after the handover of British Hong Kong to China, independent journalism has never been so threatened. (RSF) urges the international community to apply more pressure on the Chinese regime to restore full press freedom.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the increase in restrictions that the Kurdish authorities are imposing on journalists in northern and eastern Syria with the aim of tightening their grip on news coverage.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the absurd three-year prison sentence that a court in Mbandaka, in the western Democratic Republic of Congo, has been asked to impose on a community radio reporter who has been held ever since his arrest while cove

Three journalists were attacked by police in Ankara on 26 July while covering a protest against conjugal violence that was forcibly dispersed by the police. RSF condemns the constant use of police violence against reporters, which jeopardises their work.

This article was originally published on 28/06/2022 and has been temporarily withdrawn pending further information.

Four months after the journalist Emilia Șercan filed complaints for the publication of her private pictures and the alleged leak of key elements of the case, RSF and partners are calling on the prosecution to commit to pursue the investigations.

Following last weekend’s visit to Cairo by the emir of Qatar to meet with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, RSF points out that four journalists with the Qatari TV broadcaster Al Jazeera are still being held by the Egyptian authorities.

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.