Polish lawmakers voted to pass a contentious bill last week, which has been seen by many to be a step toward suppressing press freedom. Now, it awaits the approval of the Senate and President Andrzej Duda.

A close associate of the incarcerated Kremlin critic, Alexei Navalny, said on Wednesday that Russian state prosecutors have urged a court to declare her guilty of violating COVID-19 safety standards and impose two years of limitations on her.

The reverberations from an international media investigation into Israeli spyware firm the NSO Group continue, with Amazon saying it will shut down cloud service infrastructure and accounts linked to the surveillance vendor. As Vice reported Monday, Amazon made the call after a global backlash to the firm’s methods.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) urged Brazilian officials and their representatives to refrain from harassing members of the press who cover them and rather encourage free reporting. The appeal came after President Jair Bolsonaro’s personal lawyer sent a lengthy and menacing message to a journalist reporting on alleged government corruption.

U.S. federal prosecutors charged an Iranian intelligence official and three members of his network for a plot to kidnap a New York-based Iranian-American journalist, author and human rights activist critical of Iran, the U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday.

Vietnamese authorities should immediately release journalist Dung Le Van and drop any charges against him, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said on Monday after police arrested the freelance reporter who covers corruption and land confiscations in his country.

It has never been more dangerous to be a journalist in Belarus, where President Alexander Lukashenko’s regime is trying to silence and suppress the independent media, reporters said at an online press conference in Minsk on Tuesday.

Thousands of Georgians protestedon Monday against the government, requesting the resignation of the prime minister over the death of a journalist who was beaten by an anti-LGBTQ mob last week.

Angolan authorities should drop criminal defamation charges against anti-corruption journalists Coque Mukuta and Escrivão José and stop trying to silence those who are exposing corruption, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said in a statement on Thursday.

Police in Moscow on Tuesday raided employees of Proekt (Project), an independent media outlet, on the same day the media published its investigation about Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev.

The semi-independent government of the Kurdish region in the north of Iraq has since March 2020 been harshly cracking down on critics, arresting and even disappearing journalists and activists, Amnesty International claimed in a report last week.  

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR) in Mexico condemned the recent murders of two local journalists who were gunned down in separate attacks last week.

Police in Nicaragua raided the home of President Daniel Ortega’s main challenger and placed her under house arrest on Wednesday, a day after prosecutors brought money laundering charges against her and requested that she be banned from running for or holding public office.

A Pakistani TV channel suspended the host of a popular political talk show after he criticized the country’s powerful military for its role in censorship during last week’s protests that were prompted by the latest attack against journalists.

Three unidentified men broke on Tuesday into the apartment of a prominent Pakistani journalist who has been criticising the government and the country’s powerful military, tied him up and beat him with a pistol in what appears to be the latest attack against journalists in the South Asian country.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urged Russia to “repeal its draconian ‘foreign agents’ law,” stressing that labeling a media outlet in Russia as a “foreign agent” is a “serious violation of media pluralism.”

On this World Press Freedom Day, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) stands with all members of the media who face threats for doing their jobs.

Incarcerated Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny ended his three-weeks-long hunger strike after prison authorities transferred him to a civil hospital, where doctors persuaded him to start eating again.

Two Moroccan journalists kept in unlawful pre-trial detention since 2019 and 2020 have entered a hunger strike after their trials have been postponed and their provisional release requests rejected for at least the tenth time.

Myanmar’s dictatorial military junta arrested on Friday two more reporters in its latest attempt to crack down on the country’s free press and limit the flow of information about resistance to last month’s coup.