Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

Noroña met with a source who told her that the leader of a drug trafficking group had threatened to kill the journalist due to her reporting on organized crime and violence in Ecuador’s prisons.

“The Nicaraguan government has once again shown little respect for the right to freedom of expression amid an absurd climate of total censorship, which extends even to religious activities.”

Mantsevich faces up to four years in prison if convicted of disseminating “knowingly false information discrediting Belarus and its authorities”.

Police assaulted at least nine journalists on the court’s premises in the capital city of Dhaka after clashes broke out between lawyers supporting the ruling Awami League party and the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party.

“Authorities must immediately and unconditionally release Shams and cease harassing journalists under the Digital Security Act, which has repeatedly been used to muzzle critical voices” – CPJ

On February 10, a court in Shanghai sentenced Ruan to seven years in prison for allegedly inciting the subversion of state power.   

John Ngongo Lomango, the director of a broadcaster, is arrested by intelligence officers for allegedly spreading false news on the conflict in Maniema province.

Kenya’s broadcasting regulator threatens to shut down 6 broadcasters for coverage of protests in the country.