Legal framework and justice system

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is creating a network of lawyers who will offer legal assistance to journalists in West Africa in the event of their arrest and will refer cases to regional legal bodies when appropriate.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Media Council will hold on 3 April in Tirana a conference on how to tackle the challenges faced by Albanian journalism such as media independence, pluralism and sustainability.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and Guernica 37 Chambers call on the European Union to sanction four high-ranking officers of the Delhi police.

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.