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In the spirit of resistance that has persisted 35 years after the Tiananmen movement, the Circle 19 independent group of Chinese media experts, supported by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), has published a groundbreaking new Statement of Principles.

Journalist Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff was killed on 30 May 2022 by a Russian strike while covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine for the French channel BFMTV.

The protection of journalism and journalists’ physical safety must be a priority for the Kenyan-led Multinational Security Support mission (MSS)

Law enforcement targeted several journalists during the recent protests in Armenia against territorial concessions to Azerbaijan. Some were pushed to the ground, others beaten and one journalist was even hit by a police vehicle.

In a long awaited positive step, the UK High Court has granted Julian Assange the right to appeal his extradition to the US.

RSF supports calls made by the House of Lords Communications and Digital Select Committee for the UK government to make crucial amendments to an anti-SLAPP bill making its way through parliament.

Street protests in Georgia against a “foreign agents” law based on Russian legislation is eliciting more and more violence from the police, including against reporters.

Ten years after the ‘referendums’ of 11 May 2014 orchestrated by Russia to proclaim the ‘independence’ of part of the eastern regions of Ukraine, the independent media have disappeared in favour of those relaying the Kremlin's narrative.

A court in Malaysia has ordered UK journalist Clare Rewcastle Brown, sentenced in absentia to two years in jail for defamation, to present herself in person if she wants to appeal. RSF calls once again on the judiciary to overturn this abusive sentence.