Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

The World Economic Forum gives Chinese President Xi Jinping a platform, without any heed to the human rights situation in his country.

The World Economic Forum gives Chinese President Xi Jinping a platform, without any heed to the human rights situation in his country.

RSF deplores the decision by Chechnya’s supreme court to confirm the three-year jail sentence that the young journalist Zhalaudi Geriyev received in September 2016 on a clearly trumped-up charge of drug possession.

On the second anniversary of the deadly terrorist attack at “Charlie Hebdo” magazine’s office, a joint statement remembers lost colleagues and recognises the plight of those cartoonists who are living in exile, in prison or under threat.

December: World authors campaign to release Chinese writers; relative calm in Nepal’s media; targeted killings in Philippines and Burma; recognition of digital journalists in Hong Kong.

Reporters Without Borders calls for the immediate release of three bloggers – Dzmitry Alimkin, Yury Paulavets and Syarhey Shyptsenka – who have been held by the Belarusian authorities for the past three weeks for criticizing the government’s supposed “Russophobic” tendencies.

RSF calls for the immediate release of Nazmul Huda, a reporter who was arrested because of his coverage of a strike by garment workers in Ashulia, the Dhaka suburb where Bangladesh’s biggest garment factories are located.

“We are not into paranoia but we are not naive either,” said Revista Anfibia editor Martin Alé. “Of the 20 offices in this building, it was the one with two media outlets that was targeted. This was an act of theft and an act of vandalism.”