Arbitrary detention and proceedingsViolence against journalistsNews 24.08.2022 Five years of violations in eastern Yemen’s Hadramout province RSF deplores the many press freedom violations in the Yemeni province of Hadramout under Farag Al-Bahsani, who has just ended a five-year stint as its governor, and calls on his successor to ensure that journalists are protected.
Arbitrary detention and proceedingsViolence against journalistsNews 24.08.2022 RSF and two Yemeni NGOs call for release of journalists held in Yemen Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and two Yemeni NGOs – Marsadak and the Insaf Centre – call for the immediate release of three Yemeni journalists, each of whom is being held in one of three main warring regions in which Yemen is now divided. One was jailed
Arbitrary detention and proceedingsViolence against journalistsNews 19.08.2022 Guinean military intelligence summons journalist for questioning over story RSF is appalled to learn that a journalist was summoned for questioning by military intelligence in Guinea about a story implicating soldiers in the theft of a truck, and calls for journalists to be given better protection.
Legal framework and justice systemArbitrary detention and proceedingsViolence against journalistsNews 19.08.2022 Deplorable use of violence and detention of journalists, activists in Cambodia Reporters Without Borders (RSF) joins 38 other organisations in condemning the violent arrests of two teams of reporters who were covering a huge deforestation operation in southern Cambodia.
Arbitrary detention and proceedingsViolence against journalistsNews 11.08.2022 UN asked to investigate Myanmar photographer’s death in custody After tracing the sequence of events leading to the tragic death of Aye Kyaw, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) asks UN representatives to investigate the case and call the junta to account.
Legal framework and justice systemArbitrary detention and proceedingsViolence against journalistsNews 11.08.2022 Media pluralism under attack from Kurdish authorities in both Syria and Iraq The governments in the autonomous regions of Syrian and Iraqi Kurdistan have been targeting journalists. RSF calls on the authorities in the two Kurdistans to stop sacrificing media pluralism to political rivalry.
Legal framework and justice systemTechnological censorship and surveillanceArbitrary detention and proceedingsIndependence and pluralismViolence against journalistsNews 11.08.2022 Pakistani TV news channel taken off the air, news director arrested Popular TV news channel ARY News has been taken off the air in most Pakistani cities and its news director, Ammad Yousaf, has been arrested.
Legal framework and justice systemArbitrary detention and proceedingsViolence against journalistsNews 09.08.2022 Vietnamese video blogger Do Cong Duong dies in prison Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is dismayed to learn that Do Cong Duong, a jailed citizen-journalist who had been extremely ill for months, died in detention last week.
Legal framework and justice systemArbitrary detention and proceedingsViolence against journalistsNews 08.08.2022 Three Palestinian journalists targeted in Jerusalem RSF condemns the unacceptable targeting of Palestinian journalists while they were covering tension and incidents during the past weekend in Jerusalem against a backdrop of Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip.