Arbitrary detention and proceedings

After 5 years of inflicting an unprecedented crackdown on the press, Lukashenko is set to run for a 7th presidential term on Sunday. RSF has filed a complaint with the ICC against the Belarusian leader for crimes against humanity.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) presents its assessment of President Bernardo Arévalo’s first year in office.

RSF and 12 other NGOs have called on UK Foreign Minister David Lammy to secure Alaa Abdel Fattah's release, during his upcoming trip to Egypt.

Reduced visa durations and intensified police raids have aggravated the alarming conditions of Afghan journalists exiled in Pakistan.

In Niger, a single controversial episode of television can lead to the suspension of an entire channel. On 16 January, the private channel Canal 3 TV broadcast the “Baromètre des membres du gouvernement en 2024’.

The hearing scheduled for 21 January in the trial against the investigative outlet Abzas Media will unfold as repression and injustice proliferate in Azerbaijan. RSF demands that the authorities immediately release the journalists.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for Jose Rubén Zamora’s full release, and for reforms to combat the judicial corruption that currently threatens press freedom.

A thorn in the authorities’ sides due to his investigations into sensitive issues, the editor-in-chief of the last independent media outlet in Khatlon — a province in south-western Tajikistan — was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment on 10 January

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