Articles by Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
Nigerian journalist imprisoned since November
The health of jailed Nigerian journalist Luka Binniyat continues deteriorating, as his trial drags on.
Cameroonian journalist Amadou Vamoulké’s trial adjourned 90 times
Cameroonian journalist Amadou Vamoulké has just completed his 2,000th day in detention without being convicted on any charge.
Nigerian intelligence officers push for names of sources
The offices of online news outlet “People’s Gazette” are raided by Nigeria’s intelligence officers in a bid to get at the name of the source of a leaked memo.
Reporters Without Borders refers attacks on journalists in Kazakhstan to UN and OSCE
“There is an urgent need for the international community to react. This is why we have decided to refer this dangerous deterioration in press freedom to the UN and OSCE.”
Those who murdered two reporters in Haiti must be identified quickly, RSF says
Haiti’s authorities should conduct an exemplary and exhaustive investigation into last week’s shocking murders of two journalists in the capital, Port-au-Prince, and provide immediate protection to a third journalist who miraculously escaped their attackers.
Indian women journalists “auctioned” on sexist and discriminatory website
Several Muslim women, including journalists, were ‘auctioned off’ in a malicious app in India.
Unrest in Kazakhstan must not serve as a pretext for censoring the media
“We call on President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev to immediately restore access to the Internet and to blocked websites, and to allow journalists to operate freely, without fear of the police, so that they can cover a protest movement that is already historic in its scope” – RSF
Two Niger journalists slapped with suspended sentences
Nigerien journalists Samira Sabou and Moussa Aksar are handed suspended sentences for publishing an international report implicating the government’s involvement in drug trafficking.