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** Journalists in Gaza face extreme exhaustion and danger as they wait for borders to truly open
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Despite the partial reopening of the Rafah crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt on 1 February, journalists in Gaza ([link removed]) continue to live and work in constant danger, exhausted by two years of war. These reporters still can’t leave the Strip, and foreign journalists still can’t freely enter ([link removed]) — so local journalists continue to carry the full burden of on-the-ground reporting. The Israeli Supreme Court recently granted a two-month extension ([link removed]) of the media blockade, a decision based on classified information that has not been disclosed to many of the parties involved in the hearing. In doing so, the Supreme Court
has condoned an unjustifiable policy and enabled a serious breach of international law, not to mention the public's right to reliable information from independent sources.


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In 2025, the RSF Assistance Office provided aid to 749 journalists in 76 countries ([link removed]) , 76% of whom needed help with emergency relocation.


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French football journalist Christophe Gleizes has completed seven months of his seven-year ([link removed]) prison sentence in Algeria, jailed just for doing his job. Last week, we organised an event ([link removed]) in Paris to raise awareness about his case.


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Step inside the prison cell of a journalist in Azerbaijan

Imprisoned for over 800 days, Sevinj Vagifgizi ([link removed]) is paying a harsh price for her investigative work on corruption within the Azerbaijani regime. To draw attention to her case and condemn the government’s severe crackdown on media professionals, we recreated their prison conditions ([link removed]) in the heart of Paris, Berlin and Bern.

Russia’s mass strikes in Ukraine leave newsrooms working in the dark and the cold

Ukrainian authorities have declared a “state of energy emergency” in Kyiv, yet the city’s media outlets persevere ([link removed]) amid Russian strikes and extreme winter weather. Between power outages and freezing temperatures, several newsrooms are reporting on the challenging circumstances they face as they continue keeping the public informed.

RSF Investigation: who killed Marie Colvin and Rémi Ochlik in Assad’s Syria?

On 22 February 2012, seasoned US reporter Marie Colvin and French freelance photojournalist Rémi Ochlik were killed in Homs, Syria when an informal press centre came under attack. The strike also wounded freelance French journalist Edith Bouvier, British freelance photographer Paul Conroy and translator Wael al‑Omar, who miraculously managed to escape. Fourteen years on, we were able to speak with key witnesses to the shelling and establish ([link removed]) that the strike was deliberate.

Out of 100 journalists who are victims of deepfakes, 74 are women

Deepfakes — AI-generated videos and soundclips that impersonate real people — are becoming alarmingly common in the global newscape. RSF studied ([link removed]) the cases of 100 journalists targeted in 27 countries and noted that 74 of them were women. Existing legal frameworks do not provide adequate oversight for AI-generated content.

DW correspondent in Niger arbitrarily detained

Gazali Abdou Tasawa, Niger correspondent for the German state-funded broadcaster Deutsche Welle for nearly 15 years, was arbitrarily detained ([link removed]) on 23 January in Niamey, the country’s capital, after being accused of “disseminating reports that could disturb public order.” All he’d done was report on the living conditions of Nigerian migrants.


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“One of the most important conditions for journalists’ work is independence ([link removed]) . It’s the freedom to choose the story, to choose the interviewers, to choose where to go, and which questions to ask and who to ask.”

Michael Sfard, RSF lawyer to the Israeli Supreme Court


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Chinese national Guan Heng has been granted asylum ([link removed]) in the United States. After risking his life to document and share information about Uyghur detention camps in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, he applied for asylum shortly after arriving on US soil in 2021. While waiting for his application to be approved, he was arrested in August 2025 by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, who planned to deport him at grave risk to his life.

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