Arbitrary detention and proceedings

In response to the news that an Iranian revolutionary court has sentenced jailed 2023 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Narges Mohammadi to an additional one-year prison sentence, the Free Narges Coalition condemned the sentence.

Trois journalistes enfermés en raison de leur couverture du conflit de la région Amhara viennent d’être libérés. Ils ont passé entre sept à dix mois en détention en vertu de la loi relative à l’état d’urgence.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF), along with the CPJ, and thz ICFJ, has introduced an expert legal opinion arguing the Supreme Court of the Philippines should close the cyberlibel case against Rappler founder and CEO Maria Ressa.

Calls for the full and unconditional release of Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan have reached a new level of urgency as police have threatened her with possible rearrest if she again crosses certain “red lines.”

As diplomatic relations warm between Bashar al-Assad and neighbouring leaders, Syrian reporters exiled to Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Türkiye face the threat of deportation to Syria, where they risk imprisonment and even death.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the release of a reporter held in the Republic of Dagestan, in the Russian Caucasus, ever since his arrest exactly five years ago.

Huang Xueqin, a Chinese investigative journalist known for her involvement in the #MeToo movement was sentenced today to 5 years in prison.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of an investigative reporter who has become the first journalist in Jordan to receive a prison sentence under the country’s draconian cybercrime law.

(New York, Paris, Dublin), 11 June 2024. Four leading human rights and press freedom organisations have come together to form a new dynamic international campaign united in calling for the immediate release of Iranian journalist Narges Mohammadi.