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Sudan: News media silenced after two years of war

The Sudan war has disappeared from the news rader. For two years, reporters trying to cover the conflict between Sudan’s regular army and the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary have done so at high risk: at least seven journalists ([link removed]) have been killed, some fifteen media professionals have been detained, and scores of others have been wounded, threatened, cyberattacked and surveilled. The conference on the humanitarian crisis in Sudan — an initiative by the United Kingdom, the European Union, France and Germany that is scheduled to take place in London on the second anniversary of the war — will aim to secure concrete commitments to enable journalism in the conflict zone, namely independent and safe access to the territory, curbing impunity for crimes committed against journalists, and support for Sudanese media in exile
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** Data: Repression of journalists in Turkey
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** Bulldozing journalism
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In his latest attack against journalism, Argentine President Javier Milei ordered the destruction of a commemorative monument to Osvaldo Bayer, the iconic journalist who documented the massacre of Patagonia Rebelde, where 2,000 workers were gunned down.
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** Three more journalists forcibly conscripted in Burkina Faso
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Abducted ([link removed]) over ten days ago by individuals claiming to be intelligence officers, journalists Guezouma Sanogo, Boukari Ouoba and Luc Pagbelguem showed up in an online video where they appeared to be in the military ([link removed]) . Six journalists have now been forcibly conscripted ([link removed]) in Burkina Faso in less than a year.

UN experts finally recognise the detention of Algerian journalist Ihsane El Kadi as arbitrary

Five months after the liberation of Ihsane El Kadi, director of Radio M and the news site Maghreb Émergent, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention acknowledged that his detention was arbitrary ([link removed]) . The iconic journalist was thrown behind bars from 24 December 2022 to 1 November 2024 — almost two years — with no legal basis, his right to a fair trial was violated ([link removed]) , and the motive for his detention was discriminatory ([link removed]) as it was linked to his journalism.


** The noose tightens around journalists in Serbia
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Serbian authorities are still struggling under the weight of the mass protests triggered by the deadly collapse of the Novi Sad train station five months ago. In response, they have tightened their grip ([link removed]) on independent media and outlets that criticise the government and increased their repression ([link removed]) of journalists. Yet, European political leaders remain locked in a state of guilty inaction even though press freedom must be respected for the Balkan nation to join the European Union (EU).


** RSF withdraws from negotiations on European AI Act’s Code of Practice
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The current version of the Code of Practice for the European Union (EU)’s AI Act does not contain a single concrete provision to combat the proven dangers AI poses to accessing reliable information. Democratic issues cannot be sidelined to an appendix, as they currently are in this text. After six month of participating in negotiations in vain, RSF condemns theabsence of safeguards for the right to information ([link removed]) and the tech industry’s overwhelming influence in the process. The NGO is ending its contribution ([link removed]) to drafting the text and withdrawing from the negotiating table.


** Journalist abducted in Haiti as terror reigns
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On 31 March 2025, journalist Roger Claudy Israel — former correspondent for Radio Ginen and founder of the local station RC FM — was kidnapped during a violent offensive by the criminal coalition Viv Ansanm. RSF is shocked by the increasingly violent and lawless environment and calls for his immediate release.


** Before my arrest, I promised that the investigations into corruption would continue, even if they arrested us one by one, and that we would keep disappointing [the authorities]. My colleagues have kept that promise. I am very grateful to them. Foreign and Azerbaijani journalists are continuing the investigations. That gives us hope.
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Sevinj Vagifgizi, Azerbaijani journalist arrested in November 2023. She embodies the resistance of the free press from behind bars. Read the RSF profile of Sevinj Vagifgizi ([link removed]) .


** Highlight
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To commemorate the eighth anniversary of the assassination of journalist Miroslava Breach Velducea, RSF and its local partners in Mexico inaugurated the mural “El silencio es complicidad ([link removed]) ” ("Silence is Complicity") in Mexico City. “The mural not only honors Miroslava’s memory as a courageous woman journalist, it also reminds us that silence enables impunity,” said Balbina Flores, the RSF representative in Mexico. The emblematic day was also marked by commitments made by the Mexican government to fight against impunity for these crimes in a country where over 80 journalists have been killed in the last decade.


** GOOD NEWS OF THE WEEK
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RSF and a coalition from the American media outlet Voice of America (VOA) have won their first legal victory ([link removed]) against the Trump administration. In response to the Trump administration’s decision to cut federal funding to the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), RSF and a coalition of co-plaintiffs filed a lawsuit to oppose the move. District Judge J. Paul Oetken granted their request and temporarily suspended the dissolution of VOA.


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