Legal framework and justice system

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.

Ahead of Slovakia’s parliamentary elections on 30 September, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges all political parties that support the country’s European Union membership to commit to implementing all European Commission recommendations.

RSF calls on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government to give clear commitments to protect journalists.

RSF is appalled by the Hong Kong government’s barring of three freelance journalists who covered the 2019 pro-democracy demonstrations from entering the territory in separate occasions over the last few months.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) denounces the arbitrary blocking by a Malaysian regulatory agency of several political news websites critical of the government and urges the Ministry of Communications and Digital to put an end to such acts of censorship.