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In response to the deterioration of press freedom since the start of the protests in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini on 16 September,  RSF has launched a new Iran Media Help Desk, in collaboration with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Dr Shirin Ebadi.

An Algerian newspaper reporter held since 8 September for reporting that France rejected a consignment of Algerian dates over the presence of a banned pesticide was sentenced to two months in prison on 25 October, in a case that shows that the Algerian au

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Uganda to urgently repeal an amendment to its Computer Misuse Act criminalising “false information,” which President Yoweri Museveni has signed into law. The authorities must safeguard online freedom of expression.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) launches a petition calling on the Hong Kong authorities for the urgent release of Jimmy Lai, founder of the now-defunct media outlet Apple Daily.

According to RSF data, the number of journalists imprisoned in Iran has been unprecedented for the last two decades. RSF calls for the immediate release of all detained journalists and concrete steps to reverse this deterioration in press freedom.

RSF calls on democracies to increase pressure to obtain the release of Swedish publisher Gui Minhai, kidnapped 7 years ago in Thailand and later sentenced by the Chinese regime to ten years in prison.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) welcomes the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention’s call for Moroccan journalist Souleiman Raissouni’s immediate release on the grounds that his detention for the past two and a half years has been accompanied by major h

RSF urges Hong Kong authorities to release radio host and political commentator Edmund Wan Yiu-sing, who was sentenced on 7th October 2022 to two years and eight months in prison

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) demands the immediate and unconditional release of Toru Kubota, a Japanese documentary filmmaker who has been sentenced to ten years in prison in Myanmar on charges of sedition and “causing fear”.