Arbitrary detention and proceedings

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns an Afghan journalist’s trial by a military court and recent illegal and arbitrary arrests of others. The Taliban government has not kept its promise to apply the country’s press law.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is concerned about an increase in threats to journalists trying to cover illegal logging and deforestation in the Zoka rain forest, in northwestern Uganda’s Adjumani district.

Authorities should stop targeting, prosecuting journalists and online critics for their work.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet to address the country’s dire state of press freedom during her upcoming mission to China in May.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is alarmed about imprisoned journalists in Iran who are denied medical care when they are ill, and calls for swift action by the UN special rapporteur to ensure that the Iranian authorities respect their obligations

As Russian soldiers in the mostly occupied Zaporizhzhia region draw up “lists of leading local figures to be kidnapped” and search for journalists in order to make them collaborate or to silence them.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has joined 19 organisations in urging UK Home Secretary Priti Patel to reject the US government's request to extradite Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange.