Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Following the shooting at the Capital Gazette newsroom, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges all stakeholders to address the harassment, including digital abuse, that journalists face, and to recognize these attacks as a serious threat to press freedom.

Nearly three years after the Syrian security services arrested the award-winning Palestinian-Syrian photographer Niraz Saied, we learned that he died in a Syrian government prison.

Halko was found guilty of using force against a police officer when the police raided his home in November 2017; he says the charge was politically motivated.

As Eritrea undergoes Universal Periodic Review with UN Security Council, the government is being asked to proof of life of the journalists who have been detained over the years.

RSF calls on Libya’s Government of National Accord to stop obstructing and endangering foreign journalists and Libyan journalists who work for international media.

After the ten-month trial of 11 ‘Zaman’ newspaper staff, six were found guilty of ‘membership of a terrorist organisation’ and were jailed for up to 10 and-a-half years; five were found not guilty.

China is the world’s biggest prison for journalists and citizen-journalists. NGOs want the EU to call for the release of notable prisoners including Liu Xia and Gui Minhai.

After 2017 proved to be one of the least deadly years ever for the media, a total of 47 professional journalists, citizen-journalists and media workers have already been killed in the first six months of 2018.