Legal framework and justice system

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges the international community to step up the pressure on Beijing to restore full freedom of journalist Zhang Zhan, detained since 2020 for covering the Covid-19 epidemic in China.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the international community to apply pressure to ensure that Israel is held to account for a Reuters journalist’s death six months ago in southern Lebanon.

A representative of Reporters Without Borders (RSF)  has been deported from Hong Kong on arrival to the territory to monitor the landmark trial of publisher Jimmy Lai, who faces the rest of his life behind bars on spurious national security charges.

The Ukrainian justice system has opened an investigation into obstruction of journalists following revelations that the army tried to mobilise Yevhen Shulhat to prevent the publication of one of his articles.

The government of South Sudan has demonstrated a clear failure to conduct a credible investigation and has further obstructed the path to justice into the 2017 killing.

The almost immediate re-arrest of a reporter after five years in prison has highlighted India’s judicial persecution of independent journalism in the northern territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the repeal of a draconian “foreign agents” law based on Russian legislation that has just been signed by Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov.

Less than a week after domestic national security law known as “Article 23” came into effect in Hong Kong, US-funded broadcaster Radio Free Asia announced that it will close its bureau in the territory.

Appollinaire Mewenemesse is pending trial after more than 72 hours in police custody.