Violence against journalists

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges the international community to take action so that Cuban media professionals can safely work in their own country.

The ceasefire agreed on 15 January between Israel and Hamas must give journalists access to the Gaza Strip. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) continues to work for justice for all journalists who have been victims of this war.

19 January marks the 18th anniversary of the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, shot outside the Istanbul office of the newspaper Agos, where he was editor-in-chief. Yet after nearly two decades, justice has still not been fully served.

According to RSF’s figures, governments are responsible for 45 per cent of the world’s missing journalists.

Independent journalist Soltan Achilova has revealed an attempted poisoning carried out against her by Turkmen authorities in November 2024.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Venezuelan authorities to shed light on the fate of Carlos Correa.

Two days after 32-year-old freelance journalist Mukesh Chandrakar was reported missing, his body was found on 3 January in a septic tank near the home of Suresh Chandrakar, a building contractor and close relative, who is now under arrest.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by the three-and-a-half-year prison sentence handed to Chinese documentary filmmaker Chen Pinlin, found guilty of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” for his film documenting the 2022 White Paper protests.

RSF pays tribute to the journalists and cartoonists killed and injured in the terrorist attack on the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and points out that, ten years later, cartoonists and their journalistic freedom still need protecting.