The attacks expose a deeply troubling escalation of hostility, intimidation, and violence against journalists and media outlets.

The US government's threat to sanction the ICC unless it pledges not to prosecute President Trump, and Russia's retaliatory ...

Tuptsokova, a Georgia-based Circassian writer, faces up to six years in prison in absentia if convicted. This statement was ...

"The EU's new return policy risks jeopardising the lives of vulnerable journalists and human rights defenders living in exile ...

After years of imprisonment for peaceful activism, Mohammadi's detention has drawn international condemnation and renewed ...

This statement was originally published on pakistanpressfoundation.org on 16 December 2025.

PEN calls for urgent action to secure the release of Murray Hunter.

"The legislature must urgently transpose the European anti-SLAPP directive into French law to put an end to the use of these gagging procedures. Citizens' right to information is at stake" - RSF ...

Tolerance for alternative media continues to slide, as the Ethiopian Media Authority permanently suspends two "Deutsche Welle" news journalists.

A bill on crime prevention was also adopted, introducing the notion of "anti-social behaviour," or actions that contravene the vague notion of "generally accepted standards of behaviour and morality".

Nearly a year without a hearing, the prolonged confinement of a Togolese poet exposes how pretrial detention is being weaponised to silence dissenting voices.

A symbol of this repression is journalist Pham Doan Trang, laureate of the 2019 RSF Press Freedom Prize, who is currently serving a nine-year prison sentence for allegedly spreading “propaganda ...