Arbitrary detention and proceedings

Le journaliste de Mosaïque FM, Khelifa Gasmi, vient d’être arrêté à Kairouan et incarcéré à la prison de Mornaguia à Tunis. RSF appelle à sa libération immédiate et à l’arrêt du harcèlement qu’il subit.

RSF calls on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government to give clear commitments to protect journalists.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the government to guarantee the online free flow of verified information after it blocked online access to The Kashmir Walla and Gaon Savera

RSF urges for the release of Chinese journalist and RSF Press Freedom laureate Zhang Zhan, detained since 2020 for covering the Covid-19 outbreak, who was recently hospitalised again and is at high risk of dying if kept in detention.

RSF calls for the release of Zhou Yuanzhi, a political commentator who served 4 years in prison until 2022, and was recently detained again under undisclosed accusations.

Detained in China for “espionage” since January 2019, Yang Hengjun is denied medical care despite significant health deterioration. RSF urges for the release of Chinese-born Australian political commentator.

On International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, 30 August, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), sounds the alarm about a journalist held without access to a lawyer in an unknown location in northeastern Syria

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the dismissal of a politically-motivated complaint by Kyrgyz prosecutors seeking the closure of Kloop, a media outlet that published a report of a favouritism case involving President Sadyr Japarov.

Somali TV journalist Mohamed Ibrahim Bulbul was arrested by police in Mogadishu on 17 August and has been arbitrarily detained for more than ten days. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns his arrest and calls for his immediate release.