Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns Google’s recent decision to extend its network of data centres into Saudi Arabia, and urges the tech giant to ensure data is protected from Saudi government surveillance.

Ethiopian journalist Lucy Kassa is threatened and attacked by armed intruders with the clear aim of intimidating her in connection with her reporting.

Cartoonist and publisher of a satirical magazine, Raymond Malonga, was arrested at a clinic while receiving treatment for malaria and quarantined in a prison section for persons with COVID-19.

“Peoples Gazette” has been inaccessible since 26 January because Nigeria’s four main mobile Internet operators have been deliberately blocking it.

Authorities raided the office of Delhi-based news website “Newsclick” on allegations of money laundering. Searches were also done in the homes of staff members. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said the raids were meant to harass an independent media which has consistently covered the ongoing farmers’ protests in India.

IFEX joins Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and other members of a human rights NGO coalition in calling on the European Commission, the European Council, the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament to adopt new sanctions and recommendations for Belarus.

After more than four years in pre-trial detention, Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein is granted a conditional release requiring him to visit a police station several times a week to report on his activities.

On the eve of the start of the trial of Erol Önderoğlu and his two co-defendants, Şebnem Korur Fincancı and Ahmet Nesin, 17 press freedom and human rights NGOs call on the Turkish government to drop the charges against them and cease such oppression of journalists, academics and writers.