Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Five civil society and human rights groups have been provisionally closed for “being liable to disturb order and state security.” They include the Burundian Union of Journalists (UBJ), which has repeatedly condemned media freedom violations since Burundi’s political crisis began in May 2015.

The war imposed by the Taliban is the main reason for the violence against journalists and media outlets in Afghanistan but local authorities, the military and police are contributing to the climate of fear for media personnel.

Get to know the nominees from 19 different countries who continue to dare to speak truth to power.

Last month, Democracy Now! host and executive producer Amy Goodman was charged with criminal trespassing for her coverage of an altercation between protesters and private security personnel for the North Dakota Access Pipeline.

Twenty-six NGOs are calling on the Government of Turkey to ensure that the state of emergency and the related emergency decrees are not tools to facilitate serious human rights violations and to silence dissent.

The police had been trying for months to identify who within the Financial Activities Control Council gave reporter Murilo Ramos the list of Brazilian citizens with secret accounts with British bank HSBC’s Swiss operations that Ramos published in February 2015.

In an attempt to justify the blocking, the authorities said the apps were being used to disseminate “undesirable publicity messages.”

The raid followed the newspaper’s publication of photos of a massacre of civilians in El-Ali, in the central region of Hiran, by members of the Islamist rebel group Al-Shabaab. Fighting is currently taking place between Al-Shabaab and government forces in this region.