Quotes of the Week
Week-ending 19 June 2026 “Security conditions in Ukraine are evolving, particularly with the intensification of drone attacks, requiring media support organisations to adapt to journalists’ needs. RSF remains fully committed to…
Week-ending 19 June 2026 “Security conditions in Ukraine are evolving, particularly with the intensification of drone attacks, requiring media support organisations to adapt to journalists’ needs. RSF remains fully committed to…
Week-ending 15 May 2026 'Azat Miftakhov has been imprisoned since 2019 on charges widely seen as politically motivated. In April 2026, after transfer to an Arctic penal colony, Azat Miftakhov…
Week-ending 1 May 2026 “When in November 2023 the Supreme Court banned the non-existent ‘international LGBT movement’ as ‘extremist,’ it was clear that the authorities would not stop there. The…
Week-ending 24 April 2026 'The Observatory [for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)]…
Week-ending 5 December 2025 “In preparation for the September 2026 parliamentary election, Russian authorities are steadily dismantling what remains of peaceful political opposition. It is clear they want to purge…
Week-ending 16 May 2025 “The Russian strikes against hotels hosting journalists in Ukraine are neither accidental nor random. The targeted buildings are not ‘Ukrainian military bases,’ and the journalists inside…
Week-ending 28 February 2025 "Russian occupation forces are hunting down independent Ukrainian journalists, arresting and deporting them — sometimes to its own territory. As of today, 18 of these journalists…