Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

RSF condemns the many attacks against Macedonian journalists at demonstrations in the capital Skopje and provincial cities in recent weeks and urges the authorities to shed light on the violence.

An international press freedom mission visited Turkey in response to an ongoing purge by the government in the wake of a failed 15 July 2016 coup attempt that traumatised the country. Hundreds of thousands have been dismissed from jobs or detained under wide-ranging emergency powers granted after the coup attempt.

The Morton County State’s Attorney’s Office is being urged to drop the charges against journalists arrested during protests over the Dakota Access Pipeline or justify the arrests of reporters in the course of their work.

The undersigned organisations condemn in the strongest possible terms today’s sentencing of Mehman Huseynov, Azerbaijani journalist and chairman of the country’s leading freedom of expression group, Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety, to two years in jail on defamation charges. He was taken into custody from the court room, without being allowed to speak in […]

February: Censorship in Malaysia and Pakistan; deadly attacks against journalists in Bangladesh and Pakistan; global action to support three Iranian refugees

Thai authorities are urged to drop their prosecution of British journalist Jonathan Head, a BBC correspondent who is facing a possible five-year jail sentence over a September 2015 story about real estate fraud on the island of Phuket.

As journalists around the world face increasing threats, the new head of the UN provides much needed hope.

Jairo López, a journalist in the southern city of Choluteca has been targeted by both a flawed criminal defamation trial and an intimidating smear campaign. Honduran authorities should urgently give him protection and ensure the trial is fair.