Arbitrary detention and proceedings

Detained since 29 July 2022, Zamora insists on his innocence and say he is being persecuted because El Periódico exposed cases of corruption involving Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei and people close to him.

The Belarusian authorities celebrated World Press Freedom Day by imposing an eight-year jail sentence on the dissident journalist they arrested in 2021 after forcing his commercial flight to land in Minsk.

The 21st edition of the World Press Freedom Index, compiled annually by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), sheds light on major and often radical changes linked to political, social and technological upheavals.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) call on the UN to intervene with the Russian authorities to secure the release of the Wall Street Journal journalist.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has obtained first-hand accounts which confirm that the Independent Ukrainian News Agency (UNIAN) correspondent was taken by Russian forces and remains detained in Russia - official denials notwithstanding.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Vietnamese government to come clean about the disappearance of a Vietnamese blogger two weeks ago in Thailand. Despite having refugee status in Thailand, he was almost certainly abducted by Vietnamese agents.

RSF calls for the release of state-run Guangming Daily newspaper journalist Dong Yuyu, who has been detained for more than a year and faces a ten-year prison term.

RSF calls for the immediate release of Li Yanhe, a Chinese national who founded a Taiwanese publishing house specialised in books banned in China.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Turkish authorities to release the at least ten journalists with pro-Kurdish media outlets who were arrested for alleged membership of the PKK