Articles by Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
Covid-19 a widespread excuse to bar foreign correspondents from reporting in China
The 2022 report of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China identified the barriers faced by foreign journalists reporting in the country last year.
Attempt by Ecuador’s government to silence investigative journalism
President Guillermo Lasso’s threat of ‘war’ against journalists doing investigative reporting is a desperate attempt to silence them.
Attempts to renew broadcasting licences thwarted by authorities in Ethiopia’s Somali region
The Ethiopian Media Authority pushes authorities to suspend the services of Somali-language broadcasts by 15 international television broadcasters operating in the country’s southeastern region.
One year of attacks on media in Ukraine
Data collected by Reporters Without Borders and the Institute for Mass Information presents the true cost to journalism in Ukraine of Russia’s invasion.
RSF steps up monitoring of media freedom violations in Brazilian Amazon
RSF is reinforcing its monitoring of press freedom violations in Brazil’s Amazonian region, where journalistic freedom is crucial to combatting climate change.
Mongolia: RSF commends presidential veto of a dangerous social media bill
The bill would have given authorities the power to censor any online content they dislike.
Two refugee journalists in Turkey risk deportation to Syria
“Sending them back to Syria is to send them back to imprisonment, disappearance, or even death,” says RSF.
Anti-journalist terror has grown in every way in two years of military rule in Myanmar
Since the military coup on 1 February 2021, four Burmese journalists have been killed, and no fewer than 130 journalists have been arrested and jailed, and 72 are still being held.