Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

The owner of the recently closed ‘Yenigün’ newspaper, Uysal was shot in the leg by two motorcyclists who were waiting for him outside his home.

Iran is one of the world’s five biggest jailers of journalists; following a new wave of arrests and interrogations of women journalists in August, the total number of women journalists behind bars is now ten.

Published last November, the Declaration on Information and Democracy proclaims basic principles for the global online information and communication space, with the aim of encouraging freely reported and trustworthy news and information.

Two editors were detained on the orders of Chad’s prosecutor-general following their coverage of a trial involving the former health minister Toupta Boguéna.

A news weekly – “The Manager Horizon” – is being repeatedly threatened with closure by Congo-Brazzaville’s media regulator, the Superior Council for Freedom of Communication, following its coverage of alleged mismanagement at a state agency.

Since June, journalists have been attacked while covering protests in Hong Kong.

Most of these 20 journalists were kidnapped by either government forces or non-government forces and, in most cases, their families lack precise information about where they are being held or what has happened to them.

Gabon’s media regulating body, the High Authority for Communication (HAC), has shut down a popular news website “Gabon Media Time” for a month.