Arbitrary detention and proceedings

According to information gathered by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), an armed commando in civilian clothes claiming to be members of the Burkinabe secret service apprehended Atiana Serge Oulon.

Since the forced closure of Hong Kong’s largest Chinese-language independent newspaper Apple Daily three years ago, seven of its staff members, including the founder Jimmy Lai, are still detained and awaiting verdicts on spurious national security charges

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is dismayed by the clear signs that Serbia’s decision to deny entry to an Israeli-based Russian journalist was influenced by Russia.

In response to the news that an Iranian revolutionary court has sentenced jailed 2023 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Narges Mohammadi to an additional one-year prison sentence, the Free Narges Coalition condemned the sentence.

Trois journalistes enfermés en raison de leur couverture du conflit de la région Amhara viennent d’être libérés. Ils ont passé entre sept à dix mois en détention en vertu de la loi relative à l’état d’urgence.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF), along with the CPJ, and thz ICFJ, has introduced an expert legal opinion arguing the Supreme Court of the Philippines should close the cyberlibel case against Rappler founder and CEO Maria Ressa.

Calls for the full and unconditional release of Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan have reached a new level of urgency as police have threatened her with possible rearrest if she again crosses certain “red lines.”

As diplomatic relations warm between Bashar al-Assad and neighbouring leaders, Syrian reporters exiled to Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Türkiye face the threat of deportation to Syria, where they risk imprisonment and even death.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the release of a reporter held in the Republic of Dagestan, in the Russian Caucasus, ever since his arrest exactly five years ago.