UPDATE: Reports from the Philippines confirm that Maria Ressa was arrested today and will be taken to court in relation to cyber libel offences.

WAN-IFRA and WEF have written to Milo Djukanovic, president of Montenegro, denouncing a serious deterioration in journalist safety over recent months and calling on the government to do more to protect media professionals.

WAN-IFRA and the World Editors Forum have written to Abdiweli Mohamed Ali Gaas, President of Puntland, to express serious concern at a shooting attack by a police officer on a journalist and a growing climate of impunity ahead of elections scheduled for 2019.