Women Press Freedom expresses profound alarm at judicial decisions granting freedom to a former governor and a former police chief accused of torturing investigative journalist Lydia Cacho.

The California 5th District Court of Appeal upholds a lower court’s decision ordering Ishani Desai — a former reporter for the Bakersfield Californian and now with The Sacramento Bee — to handover interview notes.

In a verdict that strikes at the very heart of press freedom and justice, Brazilian journalist Schirlei Alves was unjustly sentenced to one year of open detention and fined over $80,000.

Photojournalist Javeria Siddique — the widow of prominent Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif, who was tragically killed in Kenya a year ago — has filed a lawsuit against an elite Kenyan police unit.

RSF correspondent Janna Baytelova and Uralskaya Nedelya's editor-in-chief Tamara Eslyamova convicted of conducting illegal opinion polls.

Anastasia Zhvyk, a journalist from Sevastopol, has been found guilty of ‘discrediting the Russian armed forces’.