Legal framework and justice system

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and a coalition of 24 human rights NGOs urge for the release of Chinese investigative journalist Huang Xueqin, who was arrested exactly one year ago for allegedly 'inciting subversion of state power'.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of Htet Htet Khine, a Burmese freelance journalist and former BBC Media Action presenter who was sentenced to three years in prison with hard labour.

RSF welcomes the development, but emphasises the urgent need for justice for the killing itself. Delayed justice for McKee will only worsen the climate of impunity for violence against journalists in Northern Ireland.

 In an unprecedented effort to achieve justice in the killing of journalists, three leading press freedom groups launched a People's Tribunal in November 2021 to hold governments accountable.

The Egyptian government’s systematic persecution of journalists has not let up since it launched a “national strategy for human rights” one year ago, says Reporters Without Borders.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by the five-year jail term that Vietnam’s authorities quietly imposed on the independent journalist Le Anh Hung after holding him for four years in inhuman conditions.

In the latest case of judicial harassment of Tamil journalists in Sri Lanka, two reporters are to be interrogated on suspicion of “terrorism” in the next few days.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has asked France’s broadcasting regulator, ARCOM, to order French TV satellite operator Eutelsat to stop carrying three Russian TV channels that are spearheads of the Kremlin’s war propaganda.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is urging the authorities to undertake a speedy and transparent investigation.