Legal framework and justice system

The charges brought against journalist Alfousseini Togo under the cybercrime law and his pre-trial detention are the latest sign of the crackdown on press freedom in Mali.

Journalists Clément Girardot and Jérôme Chobeaux were recently denied entry into Georgia without justification.

They were beaten, kicked, and hit with bottles: in 2024, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) documented 89 attacks on media professionals and media organizations, as revealed in the newly published “Close-Up 2025: RSF Report on Press Freedom in Germany”.

Four years after the assassination of Greek crime reporter Giorgos Karaivaz, the criminal investigation appears stuck in a dead end.

In an opinion published on 4 April 2025, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention acknowledged that the detention of Algerian journalist Ihsane El Kadi from 24 December to 1 November was arbitrary.

Serbian journalism is being systematically repressed yet European political leaders remain locked in a state of guilty inaction.

Joakim Medin is accused of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and “belonging to an armed terrorist organisation” because of his presence at a pro-PKK rally in Stockholm in 2023.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Athens Court of Appeal, which will hear this case on 27 March, to acquit the reporter, who has been prosecuted based on an almost empty case file.

Around twenty armed men abducted the two brothers of exiled journalist Ahmad Noorani shortly after the publication of his investigation.