Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

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Can Dündar and Erdem Gül will be released as a result of a ruling by the Constitutional Court that their detention is illegal. In an upcoming trial, they will face possible life sentences on charges including divulging state secrets for espionage purposes and trying to overthrow the government.

Following up on a meeting with John Kerry in 2015, international organisations urged him to implement the State Department’s journalist safety roadmap and to send a message to posts worldwide to set out new protocols on dealing with imperilled journalists.

A video reporter for state-owned Yemen TV, Shaibani was killed while covering the fighting in Taiz along with other journalists.

RSF welcomes a new presidential decree that should facilitate media activity in Afghanistan and the fight against impunity for crimes of violence against journalists.

It’s a familiar story that always has the same sad ending. Anabel Flores Salazar, a crime reporter for El Sol de Orizaba newspaper, was found dead on 9 February 2016 in the state of Puebla, becoming the 15th journalist killed in Veracruz since 2010.

There has been no information about the fate of Sofiane Chourabi and Nadhir Ktari in the 17 months since their disappearance in eastern Libya while on assignment for Tunisia’s First TV.

The media accuse the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) of putting political pressure on journalists, while Prime Aleksandar Vucic has described the protests as an “attempt to destabilize” Serbia and has called for parliamentary elections in April, two years ahead of schedule.