Legal framework and justice system

The High Court’s decision to provisionally allow him to appeal his extradition on three grounds represents the final chance for the UK courts to halt his transfer to the US, where he faces life in prison for publishing information in the public interest.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and a coalition of journalists and NGOs have called on the Malaysian authorities to overturn the conviction in absentia of British investigative journalist Clare Rewcastle Brown.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and its local partner Propuesta Cívica (PC) are calling on Mexico’s presidential candidates to commit to combatting impunity for violence against journalists.

The Turkish Constitutional Court has overturned several judicial decisions censoring journalistic content, considering that Article 9 of the Internet law constitutes a violation of press freedom.

As Kassym-Jomart Tokayev completes his fifth year as Kazakhstan’s president, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns his increasingly oppressive rule and urges him to finally keep his pledges to improve press freedom.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the withdrawal of a provision in an electronic communications bill in Côte d'Ivoire that would criminalise revealing the content of electronic messages, and could be used arbitrarily against journalists.

Journalist Stanis Bujakera will soon be free. He has been sentenced to six months in prison, a sentence that covers the duration of his pre-trial detention.

RSF and Jeune Afrique protested outside the Democratic Republic of Congo embassy in Paris Friday 15 March to demand the release of Jeune Afrique’s Kinshasa correspondent, for whom a Congolese prosecutor has requested a 20-year prison sentence.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Slovakia’s culture minister to withdraw a bill that would enable the government to control public media.