WPF stands firmly with Zhina Modares Gorji, a prominent Iranian-Kurdish journalist and women's rights activist from Sanandaj, who has been handed a 21-year prison sentence and exile to Hamedan Central Prison by the Iranian judiciary.

Five journalists affiliated with Özgürlükçü Demokrasi (Liberal Democracy) have been sentenced to prison, with former editors Hicran Ürün and Reyhan Hacıoğlu receiving three years and 45 days respectively, WPF worryingly documents.

WPF expresses solidarity with Shireen Saeedi, who has been sentenced to five years in prison on charges of "conspiring and assembling against national security."

The sentencing of Clare Rewcastle-Brown by a Malay court to two years in prison in absentia, for defaming the queen consort Sultanah Nur Zahirah of Terengganu, is deeply troubling.

CFWIJ is deeply troubled by the sentencing of Ma Htet Htet, a journalist in Myanmar, to five years in prison on terrorism charges — a severe and baseless accusation used indiscriminately by Myanmar's military regime to suppress and intimidate the free press.

CFWIJ vehemently condemns the unjust imprisonment of Than Lwin Thu and the ongoing suppression of press freedom in Myanmar.