Journaliste en danger (JED)

François Kiyana was detained by police in Shabunda on orders from the local administration. The radio journalist was accused of being late in reading a press release, written by local authorities, on-air.

People are encouraged to join around 200 organisations supporting the adoption of 13 basic principles applying existing human rights law to modern digital surveillance.

IFEX members issued a joint call for amendments to a deeply-flawed draft media law in Somalia before it goes to parliament for approval in August.

Eighteen human rights organisations came together to support an open letter addressed by the Civil Coalition for the Defence of Freedom of Expression to the Chairman and members of the National Constituent Assembly in Tunisia, as they prepare to discuss the final draft of the constitution.

IFEX members sent a joint letter to President Museveni calling for an end to impunity in cases of police violence against the media, after a violent crackdown on a demonstration in May over media closures.

Nine private radio and television stations have been closed in the Democratic Republic of Congo for failing to pay their annual licence fees of approximately US $24,000 each.

Joachim Diana faces six months in jail and a fine of US $20,000 for writing an article that criticizes a Chinese business in Kinshasa.

Prosecutors in Bandundu province have jailed Dadou Etiom and Guy Ngiaba after provincial assembly president Boniface Ntwa accused the two journalists of “detrimental allegations.”