Arbitrary detention and proceedings

Nine journalists have been arbitrarily arrested by Taliban security forces in the past ten days in Afghanistan in a crackdown without precedent this year.

USA: 11 years after journalist Austin Tice’s capture, RSF urges the Biden Administration to secure his immediate release

13 August 2023 marks three years since the arrest of Chinese-born Australian journalist Cheng Lei, RSF urges the Chinese regime to immediately release her.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns a new escalation in Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s frenetic persecution of the media ever since his fraudulent election three years ago,.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the arbitrary closure of Spoon Network, Liberia’s biggest independent privately-owned radio and TV broadcaster, just months ahead of presidential and general elections.

A week after ousting their elected president, Niger’s military have blocked local retransmission of the signals of French international news broadcasters Radio France Internationale (RFI) and France 24.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of Pape Alé Niang, the editor of the Dakarmatin news site, who has just been detained arbitrarily for the third time in less than a year.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reiterates its appeal to the international community to press the authorities to immediately free them and all of the 33 other journalists detained in Belarus.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has joined the Belarusian Association of Journalists’ (BAJ’s) marathon of solidarity, uniting its offices around the world in the call to release the country’s imprisoned journalists.