Arbitrary detention and proceedings

Under investigation for publishing a book in 2020 that was censored due to its controversial cover, journalist and editor Kean Wong was briefly detained on 17 October.

RSF firmly rejects the legal argument made by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) denying that photojournalist Amber Bracken was working as a journalist while reporting on a pipeline protest in 2021.

French-Afghan journalist Mortaza Behboudi was released from prison on 18 October after 284 days in Taliban custody. Since his imprisonment, two days after he entered Afghanistan in January, RSF has never stopped defending him to the Taliban authorities.

In an appeal launched on 19 October, two months before the Democratic Republic of Congo’s presidential election, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) asks the more than 20 declared candidates to give ten public undertakings to support press freedom...

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of Alsu Kurmasheva, a journalist with dual US and Russian nationality employed by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL).

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the withdrawal of all charges against a news website editor in Oujda, the capital of northeastern Morocco’s Oriental region, who is facing the possibility of several years in prison on a charge of defaming the reg

A Guatemalan appeals court has overturned the six-year prison sentence imposed in June on trumped-up charges of money laundering against journalist Jose Rubén Zamora, founder of the newspaper elPeriodico.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is relieved that Australian journalist Cheng Lei arrived home safely after more than three years of arbitrary detention in China.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is alarmed by the continuing persecution of journalists in Ethiopia.