Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Freelance reporter Daniel Michombero’s home was ransacked and he was threatened during a raid by armed masked soldiers.

Those who investigate the government’s actions with regard to Islamic State, the arms it has sent to Syria, or abuses by the security forces are systematically accused of “espionage,” “terrorist propaganda,” “defaming” the judicial system or the security forces or even “attacking an anti-terrorism agent.”

Despite the dropping of the second criminal cyberlibel case against “Rappler”‘s Maria Ressa, the Filipino-American journalist still faces eight other charges.

Diallo was finally released after nearly three months in prison on a charge of insulting President Alpha Condé although Guinea has decriminalised press offences.

Despite the lack of an arrest warrant, editor and journalist Abdellahi Mohamed Ould Atigha was dragged from his home by police and detained for 2 days.

“We decided to file a complaint against Alexander Lukashenko himself because he was the direct instigator of this act of hijacking for terrorist purposes, and the term is not excessive.”

Journalists’ investigations of political issues, corruption, and organized crime in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Honduras accounted for 139 murders of media professionals during 2011-2020. Half of these journalists had received threats related to their work.

“We call for the immediate release of reporters detained in Belarus and for the urgent inclusion of these abuses in the international investigation begun by the United Nations in March, specifically, for the inclusion of acts of torture, violence, arrests, prosecutions and convictions of Belarusian journalists.” – RSF