Articles by Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
RSF’s 2022 World Press Freedom Index highlights threat posed by “despotic regimes” and “information chaos”
While the World Press Freedom Index’s top five countries for free expression are Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Estonia and Finland, the five worst are Myanmar, Turkmenistan, Iran, Eritrea and North Korea.
Four years of Israeli violence against Palestinian journalists covering “March of Return” protests
Reporters Without Borders registered more than 140 Israeli violations against Palestinian journalists since the weekly protests began in March 2018.
Rights groups urge UK Home Secretary to reject Assange extradition
“We ask you, Home Secretary, to honour the UK government’s commitment to protecting and promoting media freedom and reject the US extradition request. We ask you to release Mr Assange from Belmarsh prison and allow him to return to his young family after many years of isolation.”
Journalists in Central Asia under pressure to not ‘offend’ Russia in coverage of Ukraine war
The authorities in several Central Asian states have warned news outlets to tone down their coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, or ignore it entirely.
Journalists behind bars in Somaliland
Fourteen journalists reporting on a prison riot in Hargeisa, in Somalia’s semi-autonomous region of Somaliland, were arrested, and their cameras were confiscated.
Romanian authorities should launch fresh investigation into harassment of journalist Emilia Șercan
Șercan’s harassment began in January after she revealed that Prime Minister Ciucă had plagiarised his doctoral dissertation. Since then, she has received threats and her private photographs have been stolen and published online.
Act quickly to protect Afghan journalists, RSF tells new UN special rapporteur
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has sent a letter to Richard Bennett, the UN’s new special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Afghanistan, about the deteriorating press freedom situation in the country and the need to stop the arbitrary arrests targeting journalists.
Two Vietnamese state media journalists convicted for exposing corruption
Vietnamese courts have convicted two state media journalists for exposing corruption, sentencing Nguyen Hoai Nam to a long jail term and Phan Bui Bao Thy to a year of “reeducation.”