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WAN-IFRA moves the World News Media Congress to 1-3 December 2021

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2021-05-12. The prospect of an easing of international travel restrictions as COVID-19 vaccinations increase has prompted WAN-IFRA to shift the dates of its World News Media Congress in Taipei, Taiwan, from 28-30 September to 1-3 December 2021 “As everyone has been reminding us, great things happen when the community comes together and connects at the World […]

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Thai premier, UN rapporteurs asked to prevent journalists being returned to Myanmar

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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is very concerned about the fate of three journalists and two press freedom activists who fled from Myanmar to neighbouring Thailand and who are now facing possible deportation back Myanmar, where their lives would be in danger. RSF calls on Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to prevent their deportation and has

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More than six years in prison for Uzbek blogger who covered corruption

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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by the sentence of six and a half years in prison that a court in southern Uzbekistan passed yesterday on YouTube video blogger Otabek Sattoryi on trumped-up charges of extortion and defamation. The Uzbek courts must overturn his conviction and recognise his innocence, RSF says. The founder and editor

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The conviction of Niger newspaper editor Moussa Aksar is an attack on investigative journalism

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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns in the strongest possible terms the defamation verdict today against investigative journalist Moussa Aksar, author of an investigation into one of the most serious political and financial scandals in Niger’s history. Moussa Aksar, editor of the newspaper L’Evénement, was fined 200,000 CFA francs (approximately 305 euros) and ordered to pay 1

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RSF denounces Total’s retaliation against Le Monde for Myanmar story

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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns French oil giant Total’s cancellation of a big ad campaign in the French daily Le Monde in reprisal for a story about Total’s funding of Myanmar’s military. The extremely shocking cynicism of this decision matches the hypocrisy with which Total has handled its operations in Myanmar since last February’s coup,

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Proposed Iranian law would ban US, British journalists and media

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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the latest censorship attempt in Iran, in the form of a proposed law currently before the Iranian parliament that would ban US and British journalists from entering Iran and would ban the Iranian media from reporting anything that the US and British media publish. RSF urges Iran’s parliamentarians to reject

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With firing of four editors, “recolonization” under way in Poland

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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the reinstatement of four editors-in-chief with the Polish regional media group Polska Press who were fired by the Polish state-controlled oil company that acquired the group, although a competition court has frozen the acquisition. RSF also calls on Poland’s competition watchdog to ensure that their dismissal is rescinded. Their

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Algeria pressures reporters by delaying renewal of accreditation

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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the Algerian government’s use of delays in renewing press accreditation to put pressure on reporters employed by foreign media, many of whom have been waiting for months for their 2021 accreditation. The accreditation renewal process should be more transparent, RSF says. Many journalists working for international media still don’t know

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Belarusian journalists forced into exile speak out

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Five journalists and bloggers, driven into exile in Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine by a harsh crackdown on press freedom in Belarus, have agreed to speak today at an online conference organised by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Lithuanian embassy in France. More than 50 independent Belarusian journalists have been forced to flee their country

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Report of the Commission on the relations between journalists and police : towards an improvement on the ground?

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An independent commission’s report into relations between the French police and media has recommended many concrete measures to provide better protection to journalists covering protests. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) will ensure that these recommendations are incorporated into police regulations and practice. Chaired by Jean-Marie Delarue, the former head of France’s National Consultative Commission on Human

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