Arbitrary detention and proceedings

As a tribute to his extraordinary work in defending press freedom in Hong Kong, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has nominated Jimmy Lai, the Apple Daily publisher facing life in prison on bogus charges, for the Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize.

RSF welcomes news that the UK Prime Minister met Laila Soueif, mother of detained blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah

The amendments to the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA) that recently came into force further exacerbate the threat this legislation poses to journalists in Pakistan.

Fernand Cello, an investigative journalist for the daily Basy Vava, has been detained at Antanimora prison and deprived of any visits from his family, colleagues, or a lawyer.

Exactly five years ago, Zhang Zhan travelled to the city of Wuhan to cover the very beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic.

Investigative journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio has now been jailed for five years on trumped-up terrorism charges.

The newsrooms of Radio Begum, an emblematic women’s radio station, were raided, leading to the arrest of two of its employees.

Reporters sans frontières (RSF) dénonce l’expulsion du journaliste d’investigation britannique Gerald Flynn, qui est interdit de séjour au Cambodge après avoir couvert pendant cinq ans les sujets environnementaux dans le pays.

Four years after the military coup in Myanmar, the junta’s brutal suppression of press freedom decimated the country’s media landscape. In “Myanmar: the merciless crackdown”, a new documentary by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) three Myanmar journalists