Violence against journalists

Four journalists were brutally attacked or prevented from working by police while covering demonstrations in eastern Nairobi on March 5. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) strongly condemns these attacks.

To mark International Women’s Rights Day, held on 8 March, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is drawing attention to the scale of cyberharassment targeting journalists who cover women's rights and gender-based violence.

Patricio Ernesto Aguilar Vásquez, director of the community newspaper El Libertador de Quinindé, was murdered on 4 March 2025 in Quinindé, a town in the province of Esmeraldas.

Journalist and manager of the Facebook news page El Silaoense Mx, Kristian Zavala, was assassinated on 2 March 2025 in Silao, Guanajuato, in what appears to be a targeted execution.

Three journalists were threatened and prevented from filming the illegal exploitation of agricultural land by miners in western Ghana. One of them was assaulted and his equipment damaged.

The Ukrainian journalist was declared dead in September 2024 in a terse letter from the Russian Ministry of Defence. Yet her body was never returned to her family and the circumstances of her death remain unclear.

RSF priority campaigns raise awareness among decision-makers and the public around key issues facing press freedom and the right to reliable information.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urgently calls on the international community to intervene and demands Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo’s regime end their persecution of the press.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by the two-and-a-half-year prison sentence handed down to independent journalist Huy Duc, who has been found guilty of "abusing democratic freedoms”.