Reporters Without Borders (RSF) joins other international and local Yemeni press freedom organizations in calling for an international investigation into the suspicious death of investigative journalist Muhammad al-Absi in 2016.
Reporters Without Borders welcomes the joint creation by the Iraqi interior ministry and the Journalistic Freedoms Observatory of a hotline for journalists in danger. “Protecting journalists is one of the challenges of building a democratic Iraq,” the organisation says.
Esra'a's mother "told me that they took her daughter by force and they had her marry that guy against her wish," said the leader of a human rights organization that has hired lawyers to defend the girl in court.