{"id":506390,"date":"2026-05-01T17:42:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/global-alert-for-the-most-serious-cases-of-repression-against-the-press-iran-and-china-at-the-center-of-the-complaint\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T17:42:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:42:04","slug":"global-alert-for-the-most-serious-cases-of-repression-against-the-press-iran-and-china-at-the-center-of-the-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/global-alert-for-the-most-serious-cases-of-repression-against-the-press-iran-and-china-at-the-center-of-the-complaint\/","title":{"rendered":"Global alert for the most serious cases of repression against the press: Iran and China at the center of the complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"In the framework of World Press Freedom Day, the One Free Press Coalition<\/strong> disseminated<\/a> the annual list of the \u201c10 most urgent cases\u201d<\/strong> of persecuted journalists in the world, which includes professionals from countries such as Iran, China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Tajikistan, Cameroon, Philippines, Azerbaijan, Ethiopia and Algeria.\n\n\n

<\/a>The report, prepared jointly with the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the International Women\u2019s Media Foundation (IWMF), and Reporters Without Borders (RSF), warned that\u00a0330 journalists are currently deprived of their freedom worldwide<\/strong>\u00a0for carrying out their work, according to data collected as of December 2025.<\/p>\n\n\nAccording to CPJ information, 61%<\/strong> of imprisoned reporters face \"anti-state\" charges, including accusations of terrorism, propaganda, or collaboration with foreign governments.\n\n\n

<\/a>The list places in first place the case of Reza Valizadeh<\/strong>, an Iranian-American journalist sentenced to ten years in prison in Iran after returning in 2024 to care for his parents. Valizadeh, who had worked for more than a decade and a half in US media, was arrested in September after being questioned for alleged collaboration with the United States government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We recommend reading:Iran sends a new peace negotiation proposal to the US, according to official media<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\nValizadeh's health seriously deteriorated during his detention in Iranian prisons\n\nThe coalition reported that Valizadeh's health considerably worsened during his detention<\/strong>, especially after a transfer to Fashafouyeh prison, where his chronic asthma was aggravated by the overcrowded conditions.\n\nAccording to the journalist's brother, the situation became critical after a deadly attack on Evin prison, in the context of the war between Iran and Israel in 2025. Faced with international pressure, the United States Department of State demanded the immediate release of Valizadeh and those who remain detained for similar reasons.\n\nThe second case corresponds to Jimmy Lai<\/strong>, a Hong Kong media entrepreneur and founder of Apple Daily<\/em>, who was sentenced by a Hong Kong court to 20 years in prison<\/strong> on charges of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and publication of seditious material. The authorities accused him of conspiring with foreign forces and publishing seditious material (Reuters)\n\nIn addition to Lai, six other members of Apple Daily<\/em> received similar sentences, while the pro-democracy newspaper ceased publication in 2021 after suffering asset freezes and constant raids.\n\nThe CPJ identified China as the country with the highest number of imprisoned journalists in the world<\/strong>, with at least 51 reporters detained, eight of them in Hong Kong.\n\nThe list also includes Zhang Zhan<\/strong>, a Chinese reporter who was arrested in May 2020 while covering the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan.\n\nZhang served a sentence of four years<\/strong> for \u201cprovoking disturbances\u201d<\/strong>, a criminal charge recurrently used to silence critics and activists.\n\nAfter regaining freedom in 2024, she was arrested again on the same charges and sentenced to another four years in prison, in a process that, according to Reporters Without Borders, was marked by the absence of legal guarantees and reports of hunger strikes and forced feeding.\n\nThe organization reported that Zhang was denied access to lawyers and the possibility of choosing his defense, while his health was compromised during the periods of imprisonment.\n\nAnother case on the list is that of Pham Doan Trang<\/strong>, a Vietnamese journalist and writer sentenced in 2021 to nine years in prison<\/strong> for alleged anti-state propaganda.\n\nThe list also includes professionals from other regions who have suffered persecution for their reporting work. The Tajik journalist Ulfatkhonim Mamadshoeva<\/strong> was arrested in 2022 at her home, accused of organizing protests and found guilty of multiple serious crimes, including treason and terrorism.\n\nOthers also included on the list are filmmaker and journalist Tsi Conrad<\/strong>, imprisoned since 2018 for covering protests, and Frenchie Mae Cumpio<\/strong>, a Filipino reporter convicted on terrorism charges after investigating police abuses.\n\nIn addition, Sevinj Vagifgizi, Azerbaijani editor of Abzas Media, sentenced for alleged financial crimes; Genet Asmamaw<\/strong>, Ethiopian journalist of Medlot Media, detained for incitement to violence; and Christophe Gleizes<\/strong>, French journalist imprisoned in Algeria after being convicted of condoning terrorism.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the framework of World Press Freedom Day, the One Free Press Coalition disseminated the annual list of the \u201c10 most urgent cases\u201d of persecuted journalists in the world, which includes professionals from countries such as Iran, China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Tajikistan, Cameroon, Philippines, Azerbaijan, Ethiopia and Algeria. The report, prepared jointly with the Committee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-506390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yerandi Santana","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-13-at-5.35.07-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}