China ranks 175th out of 180 in the 2022 RSF World Press Freedom Index and is the world's largest captor of journalists with at least 115 detained.

Behboudi is an award-winning journalist and photographer who focuses on migration and refugee issues; he was named one of Forbes magazine’s “30 under 30” in 2019.

After a two-day mission to Slovakia and ahead of the September election, RSF and its partner organisations call for new political commitments.

The Afghan authorities did not acknowledge holding Behboudi until 7 February thought not providing details about his situation

The current environment makes it difficult for journalists to work, and as a result, the right of access to information is diminishing.

The United States is ranked 42nd out of 180 countries in RSF’s 2022 World Press Freedom Index.

Timchenko and her team have run Meduza from exile for several years.

Media professor Mulatu said carving out space for women in leadership would bridge the equality gap in the industry.

The situation has largely calmed after military and diplomatic talks, but the face-off continues in pockets along the frontier.

China is one of the leading jailers of journalists globally, with at least 43 detained for their work as of late 2022

In a rare joint statement Friday, Senators Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell condemned Gershkovich’s “wrongful detention” and called for his immediate release.

Representatives from the Ministry of Information and Culture and the Vice and Virtue Directorate had shut down the station a week earlier.

For many Sahel reporters, though, that remains too difficult and risky at the moment.

Shah feels desperate, he told VOA one morning from his car outside an Islamabad court. “I only need protection. I only need protection,” he said. “In Pakistan, I cannot stay.”

Zakharova claimed Gershkovich “engaged in activities totally unrelated to journalism.”

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