With these future risks and challenges in mind, RSF, media experts and organisations urge state actors to take immediate action to ensure the sector's resilience.

The incident illustrates the extreme risks faced by community journalists in conflict-prone areas, especially those who have been repeatedly subjected to red-tagging.

Media groups urged Malta to create an enabling environment that meets international standards for all working journalists in the country.

IAPA approved a set of resolutions in response to the growing deterioration of press freedom and the increase in threats against journalism in the Americas.

IFEX and signatory organisations condemn the authorities' escalation of the use of the law to arrest and sentence journalists under the disinformation law's vague prohibitions.

Palestinian places cannot be treated as incidental; such classifications can reinforce the erasure of the Palestinian geography and normalize unlawful Israeli claims over the occupied territory.

The Committee to Protect Journalists said the raid and travel bans are an attempt to criminalize investigative journalism under the guise of protecting religious and national interests.

Pakistan Press Foundation reminded authorities that the law guarantees the privacy of journalists' work and sources.

Groups said the derogatory post crosses the line of legitimate political criticism and constitutes a direct attack on the independent press and civil society.

Junta authorities said the ban was imposed because the outlets published content detrimental to national security.

In 2025, PEN International documented 140 cases of persecution worldwide, including 32 writers who are in prison.

The report features the probe of the Department of Money Laundering Investigation involving the country's former prime minister.