The defendants face up to 15 years in prison if found guilty under Turkey’s anti-terrorism laws.

Dubois resurfaced, free and smiling, today, on 20 March 2023, in Niamey, the capital of Niger, which had been playing a major role in recent months in the efforts to obtain his release.

The Maldives’ next presidential election is set for September.

On Wednesday, March 15, the outlet suspended its operations indefinitely, according to media reports and the outlet’s owner, David Boio, who spoke to CPJ via messaging app.

sraeli authorities closed the PBC’s Jerusalem office in 2018, according to news reports.

On Monday, March 20, Dubois was released and arrived at an airport in Niamey, in the neighboring country of Niger, according to those news reports.

Pineda suspects prison guards drugged her food and kept her in solitary confinement to break her will while she was in prison in 2019.

The Committee to Protect Journalists has denounced the case.

Police said the books were “seditious publications that could incite others into using violence and disobeying the law.”

In a statement on Friday, the Union of Journalists of South Sudan said the two remaining journalists had been freed. None of the journalists were charged.

Journalists in the Las Vegas Review-Journal newsroom in Nevada were grieving when reporter Lizzie Johnson arrived last November.

The CEO of La Prensa, Nicaragua’s oldest newspaper, was suffering from a poor diet and lack of exercise, as he had spent months in cramped prison cells.

Authorities accuse the journalists of organizing protests and publishing articles advocating separatism, and prosecutors have requested they each receive seven-year prison terms, those reports said.

Since March 10, authorities have detained at least seven journalists throughout the country, five of whom remain in custody, and raided the office of one outlet, according to media reports and civil society groups.

CPJ called and messaged Devi and Sambhal Police Superintendent Chakresh Mishra for comment, but did not receive any replies.

Protesters had gathered calling for the release of PPM leader Abdulla Yameen, who was sentenced to 11 years in prison on corruption and money laundering charges in December.

CPJ emailed the Belarusian Investigative Committee and the Minsk City Court for comment but did not receive any replies.

On March 6, officers of the State Committee for National Security in the western city of Panjakent detained Fozilov, a freelance journalist, according to news reports.

The news sites were still accessible via Wi-Fi, or on the Salaam state internet provider, as well as when accessed via virtual private networks or VPNs, VOA found.