Arbitrary detention and proceedings

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is relieved by the release of Myanmar photojournalist Kaung Sett Lin, but insists that he should never have been arrested.

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.

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.

Arbitrary imprisonment of journalists is widely used in many countries to suppress the right to news and information.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges the Vietnamese regime to release independent journalist Le Huu Minh Tuan who has been in a critical condition as recently stated by his family member.

RSF calls on Mongolian authorities to release journalist Unurtsetseg Naran. Kept in pre-trial detention since early December, she has been charged with spreading false information after she posted comments critical of the judiciary on social media.

RSF hails a European Parliament resolution’s call for the immediate and unconditional release of José Rubén Zamora, the editor of the newspaper elPeriódico, and all other persons detained arbitrarily in Guatemala.

Freedom Network, a partner of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in Pakistan, has launched the "Advocacy Hub for Afghan Journalists" initiative

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) denounces appalling conditions in which a Tunisian journalist is being made to serve a five-year prison sentence for refusing to reveal his sources for a terrorism story. He must be released, RSF says.