Legal framework and justice system

In a long awaited positive step, the UK High Court has granted Julian Assange the right to appeal his extradition to the US.

RSF supports calls made by the House of Lords Communications and Digital Select Committee for the UK government to make crucial amendments to an anti-SLAPP bill making its way through parliament.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the withdrawal of all charges against three Indian journalists who were released on bail.

A court in Switzerland has convicted a Gambian former top official for crimes against humanity and has sentenced him to 20 years in prison.

Street protests in Georgia against a “foreign agents” law based on Russian legislation is eliciting more and more violence from the police, including against reporters.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges the Turkish government to abandon proposed amendment on “agents of influence” under which journalists working for internationally funded media could potentially be jailed.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Taliban Ministry of Information and Culture to rescind a ban on Afghan journalists working for the London-based TV news channel Afghanistan International

Two years after the murder of Shireen Abu Akleh in the West Bank, and a year after Israel's official apology acknowledging its responsibility, justice has yet to be delivered for the emblematic Al Jazeera journalist.

Police in Northern Ireland may have regularly checked the phone records of multiple journalists in an attempt to uncover their sources, a London tribunal has heard