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Following last weekend’s visit to Cairo by the emir of Qatar to meet with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, RSF points out that four journalists with the Qatari TV broadcaster Al Jazeera are still being held by the Egyptian authorities.

Since the forced shutdown one year ago of Apple Daily, Hong Kong’s largest Chinese language opposition newspaper, seven of its staff members, including its founder Jimmy Lai, are still being detained.

At least 12 journalists were arrested in Afghanistan in May although the Taliban announced the creation of a system for protecting media personnel.

RSF is alarmed by the worsening press freedom situation in Ethiopia, where at least 18 journalists were arrested in the space of ten days and two are facing a possible death sentence.

The interim editor of The Kashmir Walla, an online magazine in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, has been summoned by this northern region’s counter-terrorism agency over an article published 11 years ago.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the arbitrary detention of two European journalists who were researching a story on the Yazidi community in northern Iraq and ended up being held for a month without any official charge.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) hails the decision by Gambia’s government to accept almost all of the recommendations of its Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC).

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the release of journalists and media workers in northwestern Ethiopia’s Amhara region who have been victims of a wave of arbitrary arrests and are being held incommunicado.

As 23 May marks the anniversary of the hijacking of a plane by Alexander Lukashenko's regime to arrest journalist Raman Pratasevich, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reminds the world that 27 media professionals are locked up in Belarusian prisons.