Articles by Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
News sites suspected of “endangering national security” blocked following coup attempt
More than a dozen news websites suspected of “endangering national security or public order” have been blocked by the High Council for Telecommunications (TIB) in the past 48 hours at the request of the prime minister’s office.
Reporters covering #BlackLivesMatter arrested for “obstructing a highway”
Police in various US cities are getting increasingly creative when it comes to charging journalists.
Five Turkish journalists charged with “divulging state secrets”
“Beyond the simple problem of a lack of evidence, there are serious concerns regarding the indictment which suggest it has been written to obfuscate facts and to implicate the journalists in involvement in the Balyoz case, an already controversial story, to limit public support for their situation.”
Al-Jazeera reporter killed by Russian air strike in Syria
A native of the suburbs of Aleppo, Ibrahim Al-Omar was working for Al-Jazeera Mubasher, an Arabic-language live news feed channel operated by Qatar-based Al-Jazeera Media Network. He was killed on 11 July while covering a Russian air strike on Tarmanin, a town near the northwestern city of Idlib.
Leading press freedom group and IFEX member should be granted access to UN bodies
Civil society groups ask ECOSOC to reconsider granting valued press freedom group and IFEX member, The Committee to Protect Journalists, consultative status at the UN.
Assad regime sued for death of war reporter Marie Colvin
The Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA) filed a lawsuit in a federal court in Washington DC accusing President Bashar al-Assad’s government of deliberately murdering US reporter Marie Colvin in Syria in 2012.
Disastrous toll: 21 Latin American journalists killed in past six months
None of the countries where these journalists have been killed is officially at war, but each of them suffers from a significant degree of structural violence linked to ubiquitous armed groups that include Mexico’s cartels and Central America’s “maras.”
Media, human rights groups urge Obama and Trudeau to call for charges against Turkish journalists to be dropped
Media and human rights groups join Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in asking Canada and the United States to call for charges against RSF’s Turkey representative Erol Önderoglu to be dropped ahead of the NATO summit.