Violence against journalists

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Venezuelan authorities to shed light on the fate of Carlos Correa.

Two days after 32-year-old freelance journalist Mukesh Chandrakar was reported missing, his body was found on 3 January in a septic tank near the home of Suresh Chandrakar, a building contractor and close relative, who is now under arrest.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by the three-and-a-half-year prison sentence handed to Chinese documentary filmmaker Chen Pinlin, found guilty of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” for his film documenting the 2022 White Paper protests.

RSF pays tribute to the journalists and cartoonists killed and injured in the terrorist attack on the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and points out that, ten years later, cartoonists and their journalistic freedom still need protecting.

RSF takes a look at ten prominent cases of journalists who regained their freedom this year. Their newfound liberty is the fruit of a long, tireless struggle and international mobilisation for the right to inform and be informed.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Chinese regime to immediately release Liu Hanbin, a blogger detained for a month after publishing information about a protest by farmers opposing forced land seizures.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reiterates the need for urgent action by Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council, with international support, to protect journalists and the right to information.

On 14 and 15 December, the Israeli army murdered three media professionals in northern Gaza and the central Gaza Strip. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns a continuation of the war crimes committed by Israel.

More than 70 reporters have been attacked in Georgia — some of them assaulted multiple times — while covering the protests that began three weeks ago.