Legal framework and justice systemArbitrary detention and proceedingsNews 16.01.2024 RSF fears that two newly freed Iranian women journalists could be jailed again Alors que les deux femmes journalistes emblématiques Niloofar Hamedi et Elaheh Mohammadi viennent d’être libérées sous caution après 15 mois de prison, elles sont désormais menacées de poursuites pour être apparues sur une photo sans voile.
Arbitrary detention and proceedingsNews 12.01.2024 Myanmar: documentary filmmaker sentenced to life imprisonment, symbol of the junta's unbridled repression of the right to information RSF calls for the release of Myanmar former journalist and documentary filmmaker Shin Daewe, who was recently sentenced to life in prison, the harshest term given to a journalist in since the military junta regained by force its power almost three years.
Legal framework and justice systemArbitrary detention and proceedingsAdvocacy 12.01.2024 DRC: RSF, several media and international personalities call for the release of Stanis Bujakera Alongside the media Jeune Afrique and Actualité.cd for which Stanis Bujakera works, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is once again calling for the release of the Congolese journalist, who has been held since 8 September 2023.
Legal framework and justice systemTechnological censorship and surveillanceArbitrary detention and proceedingsDigital space and democracyViolence against journalistsNews 11.01.2024 Three journalists held incommunicado and tortured in Somaliland Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the illegal detention and reported torture of three journalists arrested in a raid on a TV channel in Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland.
Arbitrary detention and proceedingsNews 09.01.2024 China: investigative journalist Shangguan Yunkai sentenced to 15 years in prison on trumped-up charges RSF condemns the sentencing of Shangguan Yunkai to 15 years in prison on trumped-up charges.
Arbitrary detention and proceedingsViolence against journalistsNews 09.01.2024 31 Palestinian journalists currently held in Israeli prisons in record wave of detentions Israel has arrested a total of 38 Palestinian journalists since the start of its war with Hamas on 7 October and is currently holding 31, most of them without any charge.
Legal framework and justice systemArbitrary detention and proceedingsViolence against journalistsNews 08.01.2024 A photojournalist released in Myanmar: RSF urges the junta to free the 64 other reporters still detained Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is relieved by the release of Myanmar photojournalist Kaung Sett Lin, but insists that he should never have been arrested.
Arbitrary detention and proceedingsNews 03.01.2024 Hong Kong: As Jimmy Lai pleads not guilty, evidence brought against him highlights arbitrary nature of his national security trial On 2 January, Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai pleaded not guilty to all charges brought against him in a national security trial that opened in December.
Arbitrary detention and proceedingsNews 03.01.2024 Gui Minhai, the Swedish publisher deprived of his freedom for 3,000 days Abducted by Chinese authorities in Thailand in October 2015, this week, 3 January, marks 3,000 days since Swedish publisher and writer Gui Minhai lost his freedom.