24 September 2024
Freedom of the press
In collaboration with 360 Magazine and Free Press Unlimited, RFG Media works on articles about press freedom worldwide.
Journalist Metin Cihan was blocked on X at the request of Turkish authorities, severely restricting him from continuing his important work.
The independent journalism platform Sawt Suri brings Syrian journalists together. Slowly but steadily, they are building a name for themselves in the new Syria.
Metin Yoksu is a Kurdish journalist in Turkey. He has been imprisoned several times, sometimes without charge, and regularly receives threats from the authorities.
In DR Congo, journalism is a high-risk profession. Even after imprisonment and threats, journalist Stanislas Bujakera continues to expose abuses.
On 26 April, 31-year-old Dutch-Yemeni filmmaker and photographer Mosab Alhattami returned to Yemen, the country of his parents. He and his brother were hit by a drone, an attack Mosab did not survive.
Lucy Kassa, an Ethiopian freelance investigative journalist, brings to light the horrors of the Tigray war at the risk of her own life. Now she continues her important work from a secret location in Europe.
In Egypt, journalism is an act of courage as critical voices are silenced. In this climate of fear and repression, investigative journalist Barbara Gorgi does her story.
After the Taliban seized power in 2021, press freedom in Afghanistan declined rapidly. Four out of five women journalists lost their jobs, remaining journalists work under great threat.
Press freedom in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been under pressure for years. Journalists there work under hostile conditions, facing government restrictions, censorship and violence.
Iranian journalist and filmmaker Navid Nikkhah Azad outlines how censorship and repression have shaped the Iranian media. This paints a bleak picture, but also shows how creative Iranians are in their fight for free information.
