Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Recent targeted attacks with surveillance malware are related to the victims’ activities in defense of public health, particularly advocating for a soda tax and criticising deficient food labeling regulations.


Ahead of upcoming landmark hearings, IFEX members join organisations from around the world to urge Turkish judiciary to uphold international fair trial standards.

During World Radio Day, we spotlight the reasons why Latin America’s community radio stations play a key social role.

World Radio Day is an occasion to hail the courage and dedication of radio journalists who, in their own country or in exile, provide freely and independently reported news coverage to peoples experiencing crises or living under authoritarian regimes.

When President Berdimuhamedov succeeded Saparmurad Niyazov in 2007, he tried to portray himself as a reformer committed to modernising his country but human rights are still being trampled underfoot ten years later.

Iran is now one of the world’s biggest prisons for media personnel, with a total of 29 journalists and citizen-journalists detained.

Based in Nairobi for the past five years, British correspondent Jerome Starkey was detained without explanation at Nairobi airport on his return from a visit to the United Kingdom in December 2016 and was put on a flight back to London the next day.

An alliance of German civil rights organisations, journalists and bloggers lodges an appeal against a new law that criminalises handling leaked data.