Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

The Patriot Act as it more commonly referred to, severely limits Zimbabweans’ rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association.

“This cruel persecution must stop now. We deplore José Rubén Zamora’s six-year prison sentence and the mistreatment to which he has been subjected, and we are very concerned about his state of health.”

A South African High Court judge grants interim interdict effectively blocking investigative media outlet ‘amaBhungane’ from reporting on business conglomerate.

“A society that does not guarantee free and safe conditions for journalism, for the defence of fundamental rights and for the defence of its Indigenous peoples is condemned, by denying its past, to failure in the construction of its future” – RSF.

The law now extends to “any individual” suspected of undermining China’s national security, meaning also outside of territory, and regardless of nationality.

Article 28 of the new law says media are “the socialist property of the entire people or of political, social and mass organisations, and cannot be the subject of any other kind of property.”

RSF calls on the Puebla state prosecutor’s office to conduct a swift and transparent investigation to determine whether it was linked to his activity as a municipal official or to his journalism.

Five-year sentence of Khalifa Guesmi described as “one of the heaviest sentences in the Tunisian media’s history.”