Legal framework and justice system

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) looks back at the Iranian government’s year long crackdown on journalists for covering the wave of protests triggered by Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody – 12 months of arbitrary arrests and trials on spurious charges.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by the mistreatment in detention of two Vietnamese journalists both received heavy sentences in 2021, and urges the authorities to release them immediately.

It aims to obstruct the work of independent journalists and bloggers and will allow a new form of censorship, RSF says.

An Ankara judge has blocked access to the Turkish-language website of the US public broadcaster Voice of America (VOA) at the request of Türkiye’s Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK).

It was one of Niloofar Hamedi’s photographs that confirmed to the world that Mahsa Amini had died in police custody in Tehran on 16 September 2022. It is because of this photo that this journalist is still in Evin prison a year later.

With a month to go before the start of the trial, RSF calls for the acquittal of the Turkish Cypriot journalist Ali Kişmir.

A few days ahead of United States President Joe Biden's state visit to Vietnam, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges him to address the dire situation of press freedom and the right to information in the country.

Four months after a reporter was murdered in western Cameroon’s troubled Anglophone region, journalists there are still threatened by both its armed separatists and the central government’s security forces.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the release Elaheh Mohammadi, an Iranian journalist held for the past 11 months for covering the cause of women in Iran.