Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

From January to May of this year, RSF and its Mexican partner, Propuesta Cívica, registered 45 attacks against journalists and four against members of the media that were linked to the current elections in Mexico.

RSF calls on the Israeli parliament to reject a bill that would criminalize filming or recording Israeli soldiers while on duty, or publishing the resulting video or audio recordings on social networks or in the media.

Corruption reporter Cvetkovic went missing on 13 June, prompting a massive police search operation; on 15 June, the President of Serbia announced that the journalist was alive and undergoing police questioning.

RSF condemns the arrests to which two investigative reporters have been subjected in different parts of Iraq in the past few days in connection with their coverage of corruption.

IFEX members have been observing the trial of eleven Zaman reporters and columnists on terror-related charges; a verdict is expected at the next hearing on 5-6 July.

Privately owned media outlets covering the territorial dispute over Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland are being harassed by authorities. Two TV channels were recently closed and journalists arrested.

Benin’s High Authority for Broadcasting and Communication (HAAC) has shut down La Nouvelle Tribune – one of the country’s most popular pro-opposition newspapers.

The past year has seen a major increase in attacks on journalists in the country.