Sachini Kavindya

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns Iranian journalist and human rights defender Narges Mohammadi’s violent arrest during an event near Tehran on 16 November to commemorate the more than 1,000 victims of a bloody crackdown on protests in November 2019. Well known for both her articles and her actions in defence of human rights in Iran, Mohammadi is […]

Facebook has written to the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), demanding that it stop setting up fake profiles to conduct surveillance on users. This comes after the Guardian revealed that the US police department had been working with a tech firm, analysing user data to help solve crimes. Facebook expressly prohibits the creation and use of fake

2021-11-17. Content Management Systems used to be relatively straightforward affairs, but as modern newsrooms publish a wider variety of forms of content (audio, video, text, images) across a wider range of internal and external platforms and devices, the demands on the modern CMS have grown exponentially. In a new report, we asked publishers for their

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Gdansk prosecutor’s office to abandon its proceedings against Gazeta Wyborcza reporter Katarzyna Włodkowska, who is facing a possible 30-day prison sentence for refusing to reveal her source for a story about the assassination of Gdansk’s mayor in 2019. Włodkowska was just doing her job, RSF says. So far, Katarzyna

The 2021 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Press Freedom Awards, announced today, have been given to the Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan in the courage category, the Palestinian journalist Majdoleen Hassona in the independence category and the Pegasus Project in the impact category. RSF’s press freedom prizes are awarded every year to journalists or media that have

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the Iranian judicial system’s unrelenting persecution of Soheil Arabi, an award-winning journalist who was released from prison yesterday after being detained for nearly eight years but who must now serve two years of internal exile in a remote southern city. Awarded the RSF Press Freedom Prize in the citizen-journalist category in

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of Ali Aboluhom, a Yemeni journalist based in Saudi Arabia who has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for tweets that, according to the Saudi authorities, constituted apostasy. Aboluhom has been detained since 23 August and was sentenced on 26 October. Based in Saudi Arabia since 2015,

Following US journalist Danny Fenster’s return to the United States after six months in a jail in Myanmar, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has retraced the week of events that led to his release – a week in which Myanmar’s generals used him as a bargaining chip in the most contemptible manner. “You become worried that

2021-11-16. The journalists working for Helsingin Sanomat, Finland’s leading daily newspaper, were charged over an article about an intelligence facility. The Finnish Deputy Prosecutor General has charged three journalists working for Helsingin Sanomat with disclosing and attempting to disclose state secrets. The prosecution follows a four-year investigation, provoked by a December 2017 article that examined the activities

Influential Ukrainian journalists are worried about the future of free speech in their country after the real estate developer who owns the Kyiv Post, Ukraine’s leading English-language newspaper, fired all of its staff. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is concerned that pressure was put on the newspaper over reporting critical of the government and urges the