Legal framework and justice system

As a result of a criminal complaint by RSF and three other organisations, prosecutors in Munich have charged former CEOs of the FinFisher group with illegally selling surveillance software to authoritarian governments for years.

Incarcérées depuis septembre 2022 pour avoir été les premières à attirer l’attention du public sur la mort de Mahsa Amini, les deux journalistes iraniennes Niloofar Hamedi et Elaheh Mohammadi doivent être jugées à partir des 29 et 30 mai 2023

A former news agency bureau chief has just begun his third year in detention in Egypt without being brought to trial – a not unusual fate in a country where 12 of the 20 imprisoned journalists are being held without trial.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and Journalist in Danger (JED), its partner in the Democratic Republic of Congo, propose ten recommendations for strengthening the new media law and journalism in the DRC.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) fears for a missing TV anchor’s life and calls on Pakistan’s civilian government to ensure respect for the rule of law by immediately revealing where and in what conditions he is being held.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the cold-blooded murder of a journalist in Lesotho who covered corruption and who was shot multiple times as he left his radio station, and calls on the authorities to identify and prosecute those responsible.

While Marian Kocner’s associate Alena Zsuzsova was found guilty of ordering the assassination of Jan Kuciak, the businessman was acquitted due to lack of evidence.

Investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr has been ordered to pay well over £1m in court costs to businessman Arron Banks

On the eve of parliamentary elections, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Greece’s authorities to step up efforts to identify and prosecute those behind crime reporter Giorgos Karaivaz’s contract-style killing in 2021.