Sachini Kavindya

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Burkina Faso’s Constitutional Council to strike down a newly passed law containing amendments to the criminal code that would criminalize certain kinds of online content, including fake news and terrorism reporting that could have negative consequences. Adopted by Burkina Faso’s national assembly on 21 June, the law provides for […]

With the number of Indian journalists killed by Covid-19 now more than 500, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is shedding light on the dilemmas facing reporters trying to cover the pandemic’s under-reported impact in India’s rural areas, where they are exposed to many dangers. As of today, a total of 519 journalists have died of Covid-19

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is campaigning for journalist Mratt Kyaw Thu from Myanmar to be allowed to apply for asylum in Germany. The 31-year-old fled Myanmar after the regime there issued an arrest warrant for him on 5 April. Mratt Kyaw Thu is one of the few journalists in Myanmar who is openly critical of

Two French lawyers presented evidence to a court in Cameroon yesterday which they said showed the charges against Amadou Vamoulké, the jailed former head of the state-owned national radio and TV broadcaster CRTV, were unfounded and should be dropped. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the authorities to end the judicial conspiracy against the 71-year-old

Two Palestinian journalists were arrested by Israeli security forces in Jerusalem yesterday and were placed in administrative detention today, bringing the total now held administratively by the Israelis to 13. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns Israel’s misuse of administrative detention to hound Palestinian reporters. A video showing yesterday’s arrest of the two Alkofiya TV journalists

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has submitted on 28th May an urgent appeal to the United Nations (UN) to “take all measures necessary to obtain the immediate release” of Hong Kong media outlet Apple Daily founder and 2020 RSF Press Freedom Awards laureate Jimmy Lai. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has submitted on 28th of May 2021

Four days after the Belarusian authorities hijacked a Ryanair flight and arrested the journalist Raman Pratasevich, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) organised a protest yesterday on the border between Lithuania and Belarus in support of the more than 20 journalists detained arbitrarily in Belarus. Читать на русском / Read in Russian The Belarusian, Lithuanian and French

The day after diverting a Ryanair flight between Athens and Vilnius in order to detain journalist and activist Raman Pratasevich, Belarusian President Alexandre Lukashenko approved draconian amendments to his country’s media law to step up his war on journalism. Читать на русском / Read in Russian The world has been stunned by the hijacking of

WhatsApp is suing the Indian government over new digital rules that will force the messaging service to violate privacy protections. It said rules that require tracing the origin of chats were the equivalent of keeping a “fingerprint of every single message sent on the service”. In February, the government introduced new guidelines to regulate content

Twitter has expressed concern over freedom of expression in India, days after police visited its offices. The police served notice to the social media giant after it labelled a ruling party tweet “manipulated media”. Twitter had applied the label to a post by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Sambit Patra. The government has said Twitter