Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

“These two reporters simply wrote well-sourced, balanced articles that drew attention to the practices of certain Sudanese politicians and, for this, they are being persecuted. We call for an immediate end to these summonses and interrogations as they are a completely unwarranted form of harassment that does the government’s image a great deal of damage.”

Abdullahi Ali Hussein had received telephone threats prior to being killed. No group has claimed responsibility but the way he was killed matches the methods used by Al-Shabaab, an Islamist militia responsible for murdering many journalists in the past.

Alaa Brinji, 33, a Saudi journalist and blogger has been held without trial or charge for more than a year for still unclear reasons and who is being denied any legal defence.

The Honduran Supreme Court has failed to implement a legally-binding order by the IACHR to protect Julio Ernesto Alvarado’s right to work in his profession.

DRC Information Minister Lambert Mendé has banned a documentary about Denis Mukwege, a Congolese surgeon specializing in treating women who have been raped in the course of years of fighting in the eastern province of Sud-Kivu. Mendé insists that the film “defames” the Congolese armed forces.

Iran’s goal of creating a “Halal Internet” (a national information network) has not been abandoned. It has just changed name. The focus is now on “Intelligent Filtering,” which means ensuring that access to the Internet and above all to social networks is selective and controlled.

Libyan President Beji Caied Essebssi agreed to a civil society proposal that the anniversary of their disappearance, 8 of September, should be celebrated in Tunisia as National Day for the Protection of Journalists.

Many cases of violence against journalists by security forces have been documented in recent weeks in Beirut during demonstrations protesting the collapse of garbage collection.