Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Boaz Ntaconayigize, a Bonesha FM journalist who had fled into exile, was stabbed by four men in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, just a week after he told his editor that Burundian intelligence agents had infiltrated the Burundian refugee community there.

Civil society groups have written an open letter urging medical discharge from prison for distinguished Bangladeshi journalist Shafik Rehman .

RSF is appalled by an Azerbaijani appeal court decision to uphold journalist Elchin Hasanov’s conviction on a trumped-up hooliganism charge and to confirm his sentence.

The closure and expropriation of 45 newspapers, 16 TV channels, 23 radio stations, three news agencies and 15 magazines were ordered on the evening of 27 July in the second decree-law issued under the state of emergency. Twenty-nine publishing houses were also closed.

The flimsy nature of the “extremism” charge against journalist Alexander Sokolov suggests that he is being persecuted because of his reporting. He specializes in investigating large-scale corruption.

On Sunday 17 July 2016 award-winning journalist Nazeeha Saeed was charged by Bahraini Public Prosecution for reporting to foreign media outlets without a license.

RSF calls for the revision of several clauses that are extremely damaging to the free flow of news and information and to public debate.

João Miranda do Carmo, a website owner and reporter who’s been threatened, was gunned down outside his home in Santo Antônio do Descoberto, in the central state of Goiás, on 24 July.