Media reports said police have provided Jančkárová with protection and are investigating graphic messages sent by email and phone threatening her and her family with physical and sexual assault and death.

There is less and less room for independent reporting at TV Slovenia, while a fall in viewership last year is worrisome, a senior anchor of the evening news, Tanja Staric, told VOA.

Khare suffered gunshot wounds to his stomach and right hand, and says he is now under police protection.

Yao could not immediately be reached for contact, and his former lawyer, Mo Shaoping, said he had had no contact with Yao and his family since his trial.

When Syeda received a phone call last month to say that her husband, Syed Fawad Ali Shah, was in a prison in Pakistan, she thought it was a trap.

The three reporters are to be tried in connection with an August 2022 story reporting that several MPs with the pro-government Nation’s Future Party had been implicated in “gross financial misconduct” and influence peddling that could result in their “departure from the political stage.”

The many blatant attacks on journalists by Israeli authorities amply demonstrate the continuing pattern of impunity that RSF has repeatedly reported to the International Criminal Court.

The two journalists, Win Oo and Zaw Min Oo, were not on the military junta’s list of wanted journalists.

Security forces interrogated Mohtadi multiple times in recent weeks, according to those news reports.