Violence against journalists

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Nigerian authorities to ensure that the country’s media are able to cover the ongoing electoral process without restrictions and without fear of reprisals.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the sanctions that Turkey’s High Council for Broadcasting (RTÜK) has imposed on three national TV broadcasters for their comments about the recent earthquake in the southeast of the country.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns Ecuadorean President Guillermo Lasso’s violent diatribes against the independent news website La Posta and calls on the government to respect investigative reporting

At least 12 Iranian journalists who were in prison or awaiting trial have been granted pardons, but most of them have had to undertake to limit their future actions.

Five years after the assassination of a journalist and his fiancée, the mastermind has not yet been convicted and all necessary measures to protect press freedom have not yet been taken.

Iran International has had to suspend its UK operations because of serious threats against its journalists.

With the help of its Ukrainian partner, the Institute of Mass Information (IMI), Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has put numbers to the acts of violence and abuses against journalists and media outlets in Ukraine – and to the resources deployed to support

The verdict in the retrial of the alleged mastermind of the 2018 murder of Jan Kuciak and his fiancée is set to be delivered in April 2023.

Alarmed by the escalating crackdown on journalists and media in Afghanistan, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Taliban government to release the detained journalists and respect press freedom.