Arbitrary detention and proceedings

Six months after completing his prison sentence and almost one month into a dangerous hunger strike, British-Egyptian blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah remains in arbitrary detention in Egypt.

On 27 March, the Turkish authorities expelled British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) journalist Mark Lowen, accusing him of posing a “threat to public order.” The charge reflects the authorities’ opinion of journalists, a stance that has become particular

RSF calls for the immediate release of Li Yanhe, the radio host, book publisher and Chinese national who has been detained incommunicado for two years and whose three-year sentence was confirmed by Beijing officials on 26 March.

Two journalists in Uttar Pradesh, a state in northern India, were physically assaulted and humiliated following their reports

Guezouma Sanogo and Boukari Ouoba, journalists and directors of the Association of Journalists of Burkina Faso (AJB), were arrested by individuals claiming to be from the intelligence service and taken to an unknown destination on 24 March

A coalition of international and local press freedom organisations, including RSF, called on President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to immediately release Philippine journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio, who has been languishing in in pre-trail detention.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Athens Court of Appeal, which will hear this case on 27 March, to acquit the reporter, who has been prosecuted based on an almost empty case file.

Around twenty armed men abducted the two brothers of exiled journalist Ahmad Noorani shortly after the publication of his investigation.

RSF condemns the police’s raid on the newsroom of the independent digital outlet Noorog, overnight questioning of Noorog’s staff and confiscation of their professional equipment.