Arbitrary detention and proceedings

Guezouma Sanogo and Boukari Ouoba, journalists and directors of the Association of Journalists of Burkina Faso (AJB), were arrested by individuals claiming to be from the intelligence service and taken to an unknown destination on 24 March

A coalition of international and local press freedom organisations, including RSF, called on President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to immediately release Philippine journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio, who has been languishing in in pre-trail detention.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Athens Court of Appeal, which will hear this case on 27 March, to acquit the reporter, who has been prosecuted based on an almost empty case file.

Around twenty armed men abducted the two brothers of exiled journalist Ahmad Noorani shortly after the publication of his investigation.

RSF condemns the police’s raid on the newsroom of the independent digital outlet Noorog, overnight questioning of Noorog’s staff and confiscation of their professional equipment.

The repression of reporters in the West Bank and East Jerusalem has intensified in recent months despite the recent ceasefire in Gaza, which collapsed when Israel resumed its strikes on the Western Palestinian strip.

At least 18 journalists were violently attacked by security forces while covering the legislative by-elections in Kawempe North, a northern neighbourhood in the capital Kampala. RSF strongly condemns these aggressive assaults.

Following the Trump administration’s orders to dismantle the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is sounding the alarm over the risks facing USAGM staffers around the world, including nine journalists currently imprisoned.

Bashdar Bazyani and Sherwan Sherwan, two reporters in the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, have been thrown behind bars for their investigative journalism.