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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns attempts by the Iranian government to silence foreign media after issuing sanctions to foreign media outlets, in countries such as France, Germany and the United Kingdom.

According to RSF data, the number of journalists imprisoned in Iran has been unprecedented for the last two decades. RSF calls for the immediate release of all detained journalists and concrete steps to reverse this deterioration in press freedom.

RSF and Bulgarian investigative journalist Atanas Tchobanov have filed a complaint with French prosecutors about a recently revealed report containing personal information about Tchobanov that Avisa Partners compiled without his knowledge.

Four years after the brutal assasination of Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi, none of the 26 men implicated in his murder have faced any real punishment. The man accused of leading them, Saud al-Qahtani, never even stood trial.

Several journalists have been arrested in Iran amid a wave of protests about Mahsa Amini’s death in detention after her arrest by the morality police. RSF calls for their immediate release and condemns the surge in violations of the right to information.

After the recent parliamentary election, the Swedish Democrats blocked access of several journalists to their electoral evening and threatened the media in general. RSF warns of the link between political and physical attacks.

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.

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.