Violence against journalists

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has compiled an account of how controversial Cameroonian businessman Jean-Pierre Amougou Belinga and two other high-profile persons were arrested early today in connection with outspoken journalist Martin Zogo’s murder.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and 15 French media outlets and production companies with which Mortaza Behboudi has worked are calling on the Taliban regime to release the French-Afghan reporter who has been imprisoned for a month in Kabul.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for an impartial international investigation into Lebanese journalist and writer Lokman Slim’s murder two years ago, because the official investigation has drawn a complete blank.

RSF has learned that many Cameroonian intelligence officers have been arrested in connection with Zogo’s murder, and that a suspect who has confessed to participating in the murder has even said that it was Cameroon's justice minister who ordered it.

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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) joined 90 civil society organisations and journalists associations calling on authorities in Rwanda to guarantee an independent investigation into the death of John Williams Ntwali.

RSF calls on the Turkish authorities to drop all charges against its Turkey representative, who is due to appear before an Istanbul court on 1 February for the 17th time in seven years on charges carrying a possible 14-year jail sentence.

Since Myanmar’s military seized power two years ago, the figures for their press freedom violations have been truly appalling, says Reporters Without Borders (RSF).

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is launching a petition for the urgent release of media director Ihsane El Kadi, the victim of political and judicial harassment in Algeria, where he has been held on trumped-up charges for the past month.