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At least 8 journalists were arrested on 21 September during protests in 42 Russian cities against Vladimir Putin’s “partial mobilisation.” RSF condemns this crackdown designed to suppress domestic news coverage that is essential for the Russian public.

Several journalists have been arrested in Iran amid a wave of protests about Mahsa Amini’s death in detention after her arrest by the morality police. RSF calls for their immediate release and condemns the surge in violations of the right to information.

The brothers of two Bangladeshi expatriate journalists who are critical of the government have been arrested in the past few weeks without any warrant. These arrests constitute grave press freedom violations, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says.

The Egyptian government’s systematic persecution of journalists has not let up since it launched a “national strategy for human rights” one year ago, says Reporters Without Borders.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by the five-year jail term that Vietnam’s authorities quietly imposed on the independent journalist Le Anh Hung after holding him for four years in inhuman conditions.

After two cases in August of journalists being arrested for covering the tension between nomadic herders and sedentary crop farmers in central and southern Chad, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Chadian authorities to protect journalism.

RSF condemns the unacceptable violence against at least ten Iraqi journalists, some of it by members of the security forces, during protests in response to an announcement by populist Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr that he is retiring from politics.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is alarmed about a decline in press freedom Nigeria, where 53 public and privately-owned radio stations have been suspended and are threatened with permanent closure, and at least 15 journalists have been arrested (and five

RSF deplores the many press freedom violations in the Yemeni province of Hadramout under Farag Al-Bahsani, who has just ended a five-year stint as its governor, and calls on his successor to ensure that journalists are protected.