Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Radio station director Jadot Mangwengwe and around ten other people were kidnapped by unidentified armed men in Nord-Kivu province on 12 January 2018.

As the Ethiopian government prepares to release hundreds of detainees, including opposition politicians and political activists, Reporters Without Borders calls on the government to add three imprisoned journalists to the list of those about to be freed: Eskinder Nega, Woubshet Taye and Zelalem Workagegnehu.

Journalists Ragıp Duran and Ayşe Düzkan were convicted of “propaganda on behalf of a terrorist organization,” namely the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), because of columns that were published in the newspaper while they were its symbolic editors.

The decision came as the European Court of Human Rights was close to issuing its own ruling on the petitions filed by Altan and Alpay, which were backed by RSF and other NGOs. Altan has been held since September 2016 and Alpay since July 2016.

Three years after 12 people were killed at the French satirical weekly, those who censor in the name of God still pose one of the gravest threats to free expression.

In an effort to restrict information about protests taking place in about 60 cities around the country, the Iranian government moved against citizen journalists…and those who try to protect them.

DRC’s descent into chaos, Ahmed Abba’s release and Sudan’s fear of ‘indecency’ are among the top stories in Africa at the end of 2017.

RSF is appalled by a new Turkish decree under which detainees accused of links to terrorism or to the July 2016 coup attempt will have to wear a uniform of a specific colour for court appearances. This arbitrary measure will violate the right of dozens of detained Turkish journalists to be presumed innocent.