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This article was originally published on 28/06/2022 and has been temporarily withdrawn pending further information.

Four months after the journalist Emilia Șercan filed complaints for the publication of her private pictures and the alleged leak of key elements of the case, RSF and partners are calling on the prosecution to commit to pursue the investigations.

Following last weekend’s visit to Cairo by the emir of Qatar to meet with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, RSF points out that four journalists with the Qatari TV broadcaster Al Jazeera are still being held by the Egyptian authorities.

The news website Rappler announced on 29 June that it had received a shutdown order. This is a new attack on the independent media after the Philippine government ordered the blocking of the websites Bulatlat and Pinoy Weekly on 17 June.

RSF is appalled by the disproportionate and intimidatory methods used this week by the French judicial authorities against Alex Jordanov, a journalist alleged to have revealed “defence secrets” in a 2019 book about the DGSI.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is alarmed by the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern province of Nord-Kivu, where both government forces and M23 rebels are targeting journalists in the course of their clashes.

Since the forced shutdown one year ago of Apple Daily, Hong Kong’s largest Chinese language opposition newspaper, seven of its staff members, including its founder Jimmy Lai, are still being detained.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of Alaa Abdel Fattah, an Egyptian blogger and political activist whose health is worsening by the day as a result of the hunger strike he began on 2 April, more than 70 days ago.

At least 12 journalists were arrested in Afghanistan in May although the Taliban announced the creation of a system for protecting media personnel.