Arbitrary detention and proceedings

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges the two states to commit to finding a solution to the case as an urgent priority, preventing a situation of extradition and allowing for Assange’s immediate release with no further time in prison.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the release of the father of an Egyptian journalist who fled his country and edits a website from a base in Belgium.

RSF calls for the release of Lü Hua, the manager of Chinese news website Hubei New Perspective, who went missing four months ago after publishing an investigation on corruption, and whose detention was recently revealed.

One month after the coup in Niger, breaches of press freedom are causing grave concern. African news professionals, mobilized by RSF, are publishing an appeal to Niger’s CNSP calling for respect for press freedom in the country.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Bangladeshi authorities to prosecute those responsible for injuring reporters during last week’s violent protests and to drop all charges against journalists

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Kazakh authorities to apologise for the degrading manner in which a journalist was forced to remove all her clothes in front of a camera and was filmed naked while detained in a police station.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) denounces the persecution of these prominent figures and the absurdity of this decision by a government that treats independent journalists as terrorists.

RSF is alarmed by a potentially deliberate attempt to intimidate Russian exile journalists.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for an end to the repeated threats and harassment of Radio Oméga, an independent radio station in Burkina Faso.