Articles by Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
Media Ownership Monitoring Map shows media ownership trends
The Media Council of Tanzania (MCT) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) have developed a media ownership monitoring (MOM) map showing who owns and ultimately controls Tanzania’s mass media.
Guinea’s media regulator asked to reconsider revoking of press accreditation
RSF is calling on Guinea’s High Authority for Communication (HAC) to review its decision to suspend journalist Mouctar Bah’s accreditation.
Joint statement calls for release of Mauritanian blogger Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed
In a joint statement 32 human rights and free speech NGOs are demanding the release of Mauritanian blogger Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed who is being held incommunicado even thought he was supposed to have been freed a year ago.
Hackers posing as journalists target dissident Saudi reporter Ali Al-Ahmed
This kind of attack, mixing phishing and the theft of journalists’ identities, undermines trust in the media and at the same time endangers the sources of those who are targeted.
Egypt’s new media law aims to silence independent online media
The new media regulation law now in effect in Egypt imposes intolerable financial conditions on the country’s last independent media outlets and aggravates the already oppressive climate online.
Russian editor Igor Rudnikov has now spent one year in jail without trial
The editor of the now-closed Kalingrad-based weekly, Novye Kolesa, Igor Rudnikov has been held for the past year on a highly dubious extortion charge.
Is a detained fraud suspect connected to Ján Kuciak’s murder?
A businessman held since June on suspicion of fraud was close to one of the murder suspects arrested in September; he had also threatened Kuciak previously.
RSF unveils portraits of journalists arbitrarily detained in Saudi Arabia
At least 28 journalists are currently in prison in Saudi Arabia, the victims of an opaque and arbitrary judicial system.