Arbitrary detention and proceedings

Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan, who spent four years in prison for her coverage of the Covid 19 outbreak, has been criminally detained for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.”

The Free Narges Coalition calls for the immediate and unconditional release of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, whose health has significantly deteriorated in recent months in Iran’s Evin Prison.

Despite the release of 135 political prisoners in Nicaragua, journalist Fabiola Tercero Castro remains missing, with no updates on her whereabouts since 12 July.

Reporters Without Borders is particularly alarmed by the worrying state of press freedom in Sri Lanka.

Malaysia’s highest court has dismissed British journalist Clare Rewcastle Brown’s request to appeal against an abusive defamation case.

RSF shares the testimony of a Uyghur journalist exiled in the United States, whose friends still in China were detained in retaliation for his work.

The Cybercrimes Act continues to threaten investigative journalism in Nigeria. Despite modest attempts to promote press freedom by amending some of its articles on February 28

Last August, the Iranian president agreed to ask government agencies to withdraw complaints against journalists. Yet the persecution continues.

On 13 August, former Radio Azatlyk correspondent Khudayberdy Allashov succumbed after eight years of torture and harassment, all because he spent three months working for an independent media.