Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Free expression violations have been occurring in Venezuela for many years. So why is the latest crisis an unprecedented event for journalists and media?

Burundi’s National Intelligence Service has accused Radio Isanganiro editor Joseph Nsabiyabandi of stirring up public opinion and inciting revolt, without citing any specific report corroborates these accusations.

Green MEPs launched a campaign of support for imprisoned Turkish journalists by writing to Musa Kart, a cartoonist who has been held without trial for more than five months and is facing up to 29 years in prison.

Only days after renowned journalist Miroslava Breach was murdered, journalists across Mexico continue to be the target of assassins’ bullets.

Partners of the Council of Europe Platform for the Promotion of Journalism and the Protection of Journalists are deeply concerned by the aggravating current situation in Belarus regarding the mass detention of journalists.

Whether it was reporting on illegal mining tycoons, training female journalists in Afghanistan or calling out the dangerous media environment in Pakistan, March definitely proved to be a time for bold women journalists in Asia.

48 organisations from 24 countries have condemned the continuing wave of detentions and harassment of peaceful protesters, journalists, human rights defenders, civil society activists, anarchists and opposition party members in Belarus.

Members of IFEX wrote an open letter on behalf of Kazakh Editor Zhanbolat Mamay, calling for a fair and impartial handling of charges against him and full investigation into his mistreatment in prison and threats made to his family.