Legal framework and justice system

After investigating the circumstances of Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif’s murder in Kenya one year ago, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) accuses the authorities in both countries of duplicity.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled and alarmed by the outrageous 12 and 13-year prison sentences that an Iranian revolutionary court has just passed on two women journalists at the end of sham trials.

In the assessment that follows, RSF concludes that it has proved to be yet another government tool to persecute journalists, particularly investigative journalists and those who covered the aftermath of the February earthquake. This law must be repealed.

The second hearing in Congolese journalist Stanis Bujakera's trial, held on 20 October in Kinshasa in the presence of Reporters Without Borders (RSF), was marked by a deplorable atmosphere, with an agitated and defensive prosecutor...

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 and ten other press freedom organisations are calling for bold decisions by Brazil’s new supreme court president in order to rein in judicial harassment of the media

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.

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...

RSF urge the government of Malta to mark the sixth anniversary of Daphne Caruana Galizia’s killing by making unequivocal statements in support of full justice for her murder