Arbitrary detention and proceedingsNews 05.10.2023 Vietnam: RSF urges for release of journalist Pham Doan Trang on the third anniversary of her arrest Detained for three years, prominent Vietnamese journalist and writer Pham Doan Trang is currently serving a nine-year prison sentence on trumped-up charges of “anti-state propaganda”. RSF urges the Vietnamese regime to release
Legal framework and justice systemDisinformation and propagandaArbitrary detention and proceedingsIndependence and pluralismNews 04.10.2023 Delhi news site editor arrested in new bid to intimidate independent Indian media The founder and chief editor of the independent media NewsClick, Prabir Purkayastha, was arrested by police under the UAPA anti-terrorism law
Arbitrary detention and proceedingsDigital space and democracyViolence against journalistsNews 04.10.2023 Niger : RSF denounces the secret detention of journalist Samira Sabou Samira Sabou's relatives still have no news of the journalist, who was arrested at her home more than 3 days ago by persons claiming to be members of the police force.
Arbitrary detention and proceedingsIndependence and pluralismNews 29.09.2023 Algerian supreme court must quash imprisoned journalist’s conviction Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Algeria’s supreme court to play its role of righting judicial wrongs by quashing journalist and media owner Ihsane El Kadi’s grossly unjust prison sentence when it considers his appeal on 12 October.
Arbitrary detention and proceedingsNews 26.09.2023 RSF denounces sentencing of Hong Kong Journalists Association chairman The recent sentencing to five days in prison of Ronson Chan, Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) chairman, for allegedly obstructing a police officer is appalling.
Arbitrary detention and proceedingsViolence against journalistsNews 22.09.2023 Two more foreign journalists deported by Morocco Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns Morocco's expulsion of two French journalists following their arrest on 20 September in Casablanca, where they had gone to do investigative reporting.
Legal framework and justice systemArbitrary detention and proceedingsNews 20.09.2023 "Mohamed Oxygen" begins fifth year in prison in Egypt for refusing to stop blogging Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls yet again for the immediate and unconditional release of Mohamed Ibrahim Radwan, a famous Egyptian blogger better known by the blog name of "Mohamed Oxygen
Legal framework and justice systemArbitrary detention and proceedingsInternational laws and governanceDigital space and democracyNews 20.09.2023 RSF's refers Congolese journalist's arbitrary detention to the United Nations Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has asked the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to recognise the arbitrary nature of Congolese journalist Stanis Bujakera Tshiamala's detention in the Democratic Republic of Congo since 8 September...
Arbitrary detention and proceedingsViolence against journalistsNews 19.09.2023 Police prevent coverage of protests about environmental scandal in Azerbaijan Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for an end to a three-month-old ban on a village in western Azerbaijan where the police have used violence to disperse protests by residents against toxic waste from a gold mine operated by a British company.