Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Iraq’s second largest city, Mosul fell to IS on 10 June 2014. Since then, independent media activity has been non-existent. All media outlets have been taken over and are now used to put out the jihadi group’s message. All journalists still in the city have had to stop working to avoid being the target of reprisals.

Police stormed the Ipek Media Group’s headquarters in Istanbul at dawn today, disconnecting the signal of one of its TV stations, Kanaltürk, and trying to cut the signal of another, Bugün TV.

RWB condemns the threats against news media and bloggers contained in a email from a militant Islamist group that was sent to a score of Bangladeshi print and broadcast media outlets.

Holly Sterling, Jeffrey Sterling’s wife, sent an open letter to President Obama to tell him about the real Jeffrey Sterling and ask for a presidential pardon.

The IACHR’s recommendations and the Inter-American Court’s judgments are essential in maintaining respect for human rights and media rights. Must we again remind OAS members that they are required to respect these decisions?

In the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan in recent days, many Kurdish media have been attacked in connection with a political crisis, where security forces have closed media outlets in an attempt to suppress criticism of the government.

While Egypt’s president has just claimed on CNN that his country enjoys unprecedented freedom of expression, six unjustly detained journalists were given life sentences in April.

Despite pressure, threats and attempts to silence them and to prevent them from freely exercising their work, Burkinabé journalists continue to broadcast credible and independent information.