Violence against journalists

The experience of Gregory Gondwe, director of the Platform for Investigative Journalism website, shows that investigating corruption can have drastic consequences in Malawi.

The state of health of Ukrainian journalist Iryna Danilovych, imprisoned in Russia following her arrest in Crimea in April 2022, is deteriorating.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of a visiting French reporter working for the Paris-based news website Africa Intelligence, who has been detained arbitrarily for the past four days in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.

Iranian security forces sequestered the newsroom of Farda-e-Eghtesad for four days, before detaining four of its journalists in an unknown location on 9 February.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the authorities in Équateur province, in the northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), to pursue the dialogue initiated with the media after a series of press freedom violations and attacks on journalists...

With prison conditions in Russia in the news again after opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s death in a penal colony, RSF voices concern about the fate of a Ukrainian journalist held in a completely illegal manner in Russia for the past two years

Myat Thu Tun is the fifth Myanmar journalist to be killed by the junta since the coup d'état in February 2021.  His body was recently found buried, riddled with bullets and marked by signs of torture.

On the sixth anniversary of the brutal killing of investigative reporter Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) renew the call for long-awaited justice for their killings.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Thai public prosecutor's office to immediately drop the charges brought against two Thai journalists, who face up to 7 years in prison for documenting anti-monarchy graffiti painted on a temple in Bangkok.