Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

The eviction of journalists and the sealing of the entrance of one of the oldest English-language publications in the Kashmir Valley, the “Kashmir Times”, is seen as government reprisal against the paper’s editor who has spoken out in defense of press freedom.

The website of ‘Correio Angolense’, one of Angola’s most respected independent online news sources, was targeted following the publication of an article about claims that President Joao Lourenço’s chief of staff had embezzled public funds.

The enforcement of 2018 media regulations could lead to the closure of significant print publications and result in massive job losses at private media outlets in Chad.

“New Naratif” website faces police probe in Singapore for alleged “illegal election activity” after boosting five Facebook posts in the run-up to last July’s election.

Ongoing political volatility raised a notch as Cameroonian authorities brutally assault and arbitrarily arrest and detain numerous journalists covering opposition protests.

Kashmiri journalist Auqib Javeed said he was “questioned for five hours at the police station and slapped, threatened and humiliated” in the capital Srinagar. This happened after he wrote a story for Article 14 about the methods used by the cyber-police to question social media users.

The two journalists were arrested after they were lured with a promise of an interview with judicial authorities over a story on the acquittal of men convicted of raping and murdering a woman.

Positive elements of Somalia’s amended 2016 Media Law are invalidated by sections which violate freedom of expression and criminalise the work of journalists.