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With less than a year to go to presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey, media and journalists are being threatened by ultra-nationalist politicians. RSF condemns these intimidation attempts and calls on Turkey’s political parties to see reason.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Burkina Faso’s president to promote press freedom instead of paralysing the country’s media regulator, the Superior Council for Communication (CSC), or trying to take it over.

In the two years since Alexander Lukashenko’s disputed reelection in August 2020, Belarusian journalists have had to adapt the way they work in order to avoid being silenced. To find out more, RSF interviewed some of those who fled abroad.

Held by the Houthis since 2015 and under sentence of death since 2020, four Yemeni journalists are being subjected to inhuman conditions and are in danger of dying anyway. RSF condemns this cruel treatment and calls for their immediate release.

Four journalists who have been critical of the government are currently being held in Tajikistan on spurious charges of links with extremist organisations. RSF calls for their release and condemns the use of such methods to intimidate the media.

After being pressured to reveal his sources during interrogations in Daoukro, a town in central Côte d’Ivoire, on 30 June, and in Abidjan two weeks later, investigative reporter Noël Konan was held overnight by the police.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the three-year jail sentence that a woman journalist held since January has just received from a court in Yangon for spreading “false news”.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Russian prosecutor’s office to withdraw the 350-page complaint it has brought against the Journalists’ and Media Workers’ Union (JMWU), which could result in this independent union being disbanded.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns a wave of abuses against journalists in Liberia since late June in which an investigative reporter has received a one-month jail sentence and three journalists were attacked in the space of two days.