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For the past 6 months, independent journalists have been at risk of facing 15 years in prison for covering the activities of Russia’s armed forces . The law adopted on 4 March was just the first in a series of anti-media laws.

After two cases in August of journalists being arrested for covering the tension between nomadic herders and sedentary crop farmers in central and southern Chad, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Chadian authorities to protect journalism.

RSF condemns the unacceptable violence against at least ten Iraqi journalists, some of it by members of the security forces, during protests in response to an announcement by populist Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr that he is retiring from politics.

RSF calls on the Serbian authorities to guarantee the safety of the journalists at OK Radio, a leading local radio station, whose work is being obstructed by increasingly violent threats from a powerful local businessman.

RSF calls for the immediate release of a Syrian reporter for the pro-Damascus TV channel Al-Ikhbariya who has been held by Kurdish government since 2019 and whose health is deteriorating dangerously because he has been on hunger strike for more than month

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is alarmed about a decline in press freedom Nigeria, where 53 public and privately-owned radio stations have been suspended and are threatened with permanent closure, and at least 15 journalists have been arrested (and five

RSF deplores the many press freedom violations in the Yemeni province of Hadramout under Farag Al-Bahsani, who has just ended a five-year stint as its governor, and calls on his successor to ensure that journalists are protected.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and two Yemeni NGOs – Marsadak and the Insaf Centre – call for the immediate release of three Yemeni journalists, each of whom is being held in one of three main warring regions in which Yemen is now divided. One was jailed

She could have taken up arms but instead she chose to hold on to her camera, microphone and pen. The documentaries editor-in-chief at Ukraine’s leading public television channel, Pershyi, told  RSF what the past six months of war have been like for her.