Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Dündar, editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet, and Gül, the newspaper’s Ankara representative, face accusations of aiding a terrorist organisation, espionage and disclosure of classified documents for reports in Cumhuriyet claiming that Turkey’s intelligence agency secretly armed Islamist rebel groups in Syria.

For the past several months, Nicolás García, 23, had been hosting a programme on El Carrizal-based radio Expressa, voces al aire in which he advised local residents on how to protect themselves from violence.

The release of these political prisoners is a step in the right direction, say the Sport for Rights Coalition, but dozens of others remain in Azerbaijani jails.

Coming in the wake of a decree ratified by Sud-Kivu’s governor a month ago on the protection of journalists, the ruling is a victory for freedom of information.

Since his detention, many human rights groups have campaigned for his release. On 21 April 2015, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention declared his detention a violation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and called for his release, yet the Syrian authorities refuse to free him.

The authorities had recently held reporter Joseph Afandi incommunicado for two months for criticizing the government’s handling of the civil war, which has dragged on for more than two years.

Are Iran’s recent election results more of the same or the dawn of a new era for free expression? 37 journalists hope it’s the latter.

A breakdown of the events that are changing the free expression landscape in Asia and the Pacific.