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Guinean journalists demand the release of one of their colleagues and condemn journalists' arrests, in Conakry, 2 April 2019, CELLOU BINANI/AFP via Getty Images

Continued detention of Guinean journalist Amadou Diouldé Diallo illegal

With Guinea having decriminalised press offences, the continued detention of journalist Amadou Diouldé Diallo – who is accused of insulting President Alpha Condé – is a violation of the media law, say his lawyers.

French-Moroccan journalist and rights activist Maâti Monjib (C), who had been on hunger strike, gestures upon his release from El Arjate prison near the capital Rabat, 23 March 2021, STR/AFP via Getty Images

European Union urged to take action to secure release of Moroccan and French journalist Maâti Monjib

In a statement issued prior to the provisional release of Moroccan and French journalist Maâti Monjib, we joined 15 organisations in urging the European Union to take action on his case.

A vendor displays newspapers whose front pages show a portrait of re-elected President Yoweri Museveni, at a kiosk in Kampala, Uganda, 17 January 2021, YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images

President Museveni threatens to bankrupt “Daily Monitor”

Ugandan President Museveni threatens to take legal action against “Daily Monitor” newspaper over an article alleging his inner circle received the COVID-19 vaccinations ahead of prioritised Ugandan citizens.

An AFP reporter hits the ground as a Syrian soldier runs past during snipper fire in the town of Maalula, Syria, 18 September 2013, ANWAR AMRO/AFP via Getty Images

The devastating toll of Syria’s uprising on journalists

On the tenth anniversary of the anti-government uprising that began Syria’s civil war, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) evaluates this war’s devastating impact on the country’s media and journalists, of whom hundreds have been killed and at least another hundred have disappeared or have fled abroad.

A photo of President Xi Jinping is displayed on a smartphone, 15 October 2019, Yichuan Cao/NurPhoto

China’s cyber censorship figures

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has compiled data showing how internet censorship has intensified in China under the leadership of President Xi Jinping.

BJP President JP Nadda (c) greets former Congress MLAs from Manipur after they join the BJP, in New Delhi, India, 19 August 2020, Mohd Zakir/Hindustan Times via Getty Images

India: RSF denounces “systemic repression” of Manipur’s media

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) looks closer into the rising cases of press freedom violations in Manipur state, located in northeast India.

A police officer checks a man's permission to be on the street under measures implemented to fight Covid-19, Baku, Azerbaijan, 14 December 2020; Gambarov had commented on the mismanagement of the pandemic in Gandabay region. Aziz Karimov/Getty Images

Azerbaijan: Journalist reports assault by official and is jailed

Zaur Gambarov was sentenced to three and a half years in prison on 28 February over an altercation at a branch of the social security department, where he had gone on 4 May 2020 to investigate a complaint.

Women photojournalists hold up a poster of a camera, in Barcelona, Spain, 8 March 2019, International Women's Day, to bring attention to the plight of women in the profession. Pau Venteo/NurPhoto via Getty Images

New RSF report: ‘Sexism’s toll on journalism’

The risks to women journalists are not just found reporting in the field. Women journalists also encounter danger in the new virtual reporting domains, on the Internet and social media, and even in places where they should be protected, including their own newsrooms.