Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Cameroonian journalist Emmanuel Mbombog Mbog Matip has been languishing in jail since August 2020 despite appeals to President Paul Biya.

Independent journalists Nguyen Thanh Nha, Doan Kien Giang, and Nguyen Phuoc Trung Bao were arrested after denouncing abuses by two recently promoted senior officials in Vietnam.

The military took their crackdown to a new level on 4 April when they began publishing lists of journalists wanted for providing information about the pro-democracy protests, along with well-known figures wanted for publicly voicing support for the protests. At least 19 journalists have been named in the list.

Of 180 countries evaluated by the 2021 World Press Freedom Index, 73 totally block or seriously impede journalism; in 59 others journalism is “constrained”. The Index also shows a dramatic deterioration in people’s access to information and an increase in obstacles to news coverage.

Imprisoned Moroccan journalists subjected to arbitrary and abusive prosecutions, launch hunger strikes to call attention to their unjust detention.

At least ten journalists will be in court on terrorism charges in the next few weeks, including IFEX member and RSF Turkey representative Erol Önderoglu.

Arbitrarily jailed for 5 years and struggling with chronic ailments, 71-year-old Cameroonian journalist Amadou Vamoulké writes an open letter to influential justice minister Laurent Esso seeking his release.

Calls grow louder for the release of ailing Congo-Brazzaville journalist Raymond Malonga who has been in prison since February 2021.