Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for an independent investigation into an attack by armed men on the home of well-known Sri Lankan TV journalist Chamuditha Samarawickrama after he received death threats linked to his work. Those responsible for this punitive raid must be identified, and the authorities must end all forms of harassment of journalists, […]
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Twitter is to expand its Safety Mode feature, which lets users temporarily block accounts that send harmful or abusive tweets. The system will flag accounts using hateful remarks, or those bombarding people with uninvited comments, and block them for seven days. Half of the platform’s users in the UK, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and
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2022-02-16. The World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the World Editors Forum have expressed outrage at the mounting death toll of journalists in Mexico following the February 10th murder in Oaxaca state of Heber López Vázquez. Mr. López Vázquez, director of RCP Noticias online, is the fifth journalist to have been murdered in 2022.
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the appalling conditions in Iran’s Qarchak prison for women, to which two journalists were recently transferred, and calls for a strong and immediate reaction from the Office of the UN High Commission for Human Rights and the UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran. “In Qarchak prison,
Mexico’s president must be held to his promise to combat impunity for murders of journalists, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said as it called for a swift and transparent investigation into the murder of a local news website editor in the southern state of Oaxaca that brings the number of journalists killed in Mexico since the
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In response to an alarming surge in violence and judicial proceedings against journalists in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has joined 57 other human rights organisations and media outlets in addressing an open letter to this northern territory’s lieutenant governor, who is appointed by New Delhi, calling for an end to the
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With the European Union’s proposed Digital Services Act (DSA) now in its final phase of discussion among the EU’s institutions, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on negotiators to agree on ambitious legislation capable of safeguarding, as far as it is still possible, the public’s right to information. The DSA and its sister, the Digital Market
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Chadian authorities to shed all possible light on last week’s massacre in southern Chad in which a radio reporter was killed while covering an attack by local herders on a village of farmers. The journalist, Evariste Djaï-Loramadji, provided his Christian community radio station, Radio Lotiko, with a brief live report
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the authorities in Fortaleza, the capital of northeastern Brazil’s Ceará state, to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation into a neighbourhood news website editor’s murder in order to identify those responsible. Pirambu News founder and owner Givanildo Oliveira was murdered on the night of 7 February in the Fortaleza neighbourhood of Pirambu
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the unacceptable political meddling behind Sincha Dimara’s suspension as head of news and current affairs at EMTV News, Papua New Guinea’s main public television news channel, after three news stories annoyed a government minister. She must be reinstated at once, RSF says. After 33 years at EMTV News, Sincha Dimara was suspended for
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