Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

“There is an urgent need for the international community to react. This is why we have decided to refer this dangerous deterioration in press freedom to the UN and OSCE.”

Haiti’s authorities should conduct an exemplary and exhaustive investigation into last week’s shocking murders of two journalists in the capital, Port-au-Prince, and provide immediate protection to a third journalist who miraculously escaped their attackers.

Several Muslim women, including journalists, were ‘auctioned off’ in a malicious app in India.

“We call on President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev to immediately restore access to the Internet and to blocked websites, and to allow journalists to operate freely, without fear of the police, so that they can cover a protest movement that is already historic in its scope” – RSF

Nigerien journalists Samira Sabou and Moussa Aksar are handed suspended sentences for publishing an international report implicating the government’s involvement in drug trafficking.

Newspaper editors Ferdinand Ayité and Joël Egah arrested on charges of defamation are released, but face stringent conditions.

Contempt proceedings were initiated against journalists for reporting on alleged judicial collusion to deny bail to leading opposition politicians on the eve of the 2018 general elections.

After years of intimidation and persecution, which include administrative sanctions, judicial proceedings and surveillance, Togolese journalist Ferdinand Ayité is imprisoned.