Articles by Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
Spain: Far-right party Vox should stop obstructing journalism ahead of elections
Vox began barring certain media from its headquarters and events during 2019. Since then, it has extended these vetoes, excluding more and more media outlets, journalists and journalists’ associations.
Meta uses unacceptable blackmail threat to oppose Canadian Bill C-18
Just as it did in Australia, Meta is letting the world know that it prefers to remove information rather than pay for the journalistic content it profits from.
France: Journalists attacked during public unrest
At least seven journalists who had been sent to cover protests and riots in the Île-de-France region following the police killing of a teenager were attacked on 29 June.
Zimbabwe’s recently passed law signals disturbing crackdown
The Patriot Act as it more commonly referred to, severely limits Zimbabweans’ rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association.
RSF decries Guatemalan newspaper owner’s six-year jail sentence
“This cruel persecution must stop now. We deplore José Rubén Zamora’s six-year prison sentence and the mistreatment to which he has been subjected, and we are very concerned about his state of health.”
RSF urges court to overturn gag order on media outlet
A South African High Court judge grants interim interdict effectively blocking investigative media outlet ‘amaBhungane’ from reporting on business conglomerate.
RSF denounces Brazil’s slow investigation into Dom Phillips’s murder one year ago
“A society that does not guarantee free and safe conditions for journalism, for the defence of fundamental rights and for the defence of its Indigenous peoples is condemned, by denying its past, to failure in the construction of its future” – RSF.
China: Journalists under increased pressure as national security law expands in Macau
The law now extends to “any individual” suspected of undermining China’s national security, meaning also outside of territory, and regardless of nationality.