Arbitrary detention and proceedings

Three months after anti-corruption journalist Duong Van Thai’s kidnapping in Thailand, the Vietnamese regime has officially charged him with "propaganda against the state".

Condamnée à 7 ans de prison dans un procès monté de toutes pièces en 2022, la journaliste Iryna Danilovytch, fortement fragilisée physiquement par plus d’un an de détention, va être transférée de Crimée en Russie.

As the Turkish government conducts a new wave of expulsions of refugees, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) warns that many Syrian journalists are liable to be jailed, abducted or even killed if they are sent back to Syria. Turkiye must protect them, RSF say

M23 rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s Nord-Kivu province have ordered radio stations in the areas they control to stop broadcasting a popular programme for two months pending further evaluation.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) regrets this decision and urges the Moroccan authorities to use Throne Day on 30 July as an occasion to end the ordeal that these two journalists and their families have endured since early 2022.

In a submission to a United Nations human rights panel, RSF calls on the People’s Republic of China to release all media professionals and press freedom defenders it detains

Dmytro Khyliuk, a Ukrainian journalist abducted by Russian soldiers in March 2022, is still alive, according to the latest information obtained by Reporters Without Borders (RSF).

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of two journalists who were pardoned by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in February, after being jailed in 2022, and have just been arrested again.

In two separate reports released this week, the Hong Kong Journalists’ Association (HKJA) and the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Hong Kong (FCCHK) both indicate the deteriorating environment for journalists and press freedom in the territory.