Sachini Kavindya

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has asked the United Nations and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe to examine the alarming escalation in violence and obstruction to which journalists are being subjected when trying to cover the continuing protests in Kazakhstan and the government’s use of deadly force to suppress them. The media victims […]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Haiti’s authorities to conduct an exemplary and exhaustive investigation into last week’s shocking murders of two journalists in the capital, Port-au-Prince, and to provide immediate protection to a third journalist who miraculously escaped their attackers. Reporters Wilguens Louissaint and John Wesley Amady were captured and shot dead on 6 January in Laboule 12, an

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of a reporter for The Kashmir Walla website who has been detained in a completely arbitrary manner for the past six days in Indian-administered Kashmir and is facing the possibility of more than six years in prison for nothing more than a tweet. Sajad Ahmad Dar,

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by a Nigerian intelligence agency’s harassment of an Abuja-based news website with the aim of identifying its source for a leaked memo questioning the head of the agency’s qualifications for the job. Is the director general of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Nigeria’s foreign intelligence service, trying to eliminate

A court in Myanmar has sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to four more years in prison, in the latest of a series of trials. She was convicted for the illegal possession and import of walkie-talkies and breaking Covid-19 rules. Ms Suu Kyi was first convicted in December, and given a reduced jail sentence of

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the internationally recognised authorities in the Yemeni governorate of Hadramout to immediately release Hala Fuad Badawi, a freelance journalist held on a trumped-up terrorism charge for the past week. Shortly after armed men stopped Hala Fuad Badawi as she was driving her car on 30 December, she managed to post a brief message on

Independent journalists and media are having major difficulties covering the unprecedented anti-government protests in Kazakhstan. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on President Tokayev to guarantee access to information and the freedom of reporters in the field. What with arbitrary arrests, police violence, blocked telecommunications and Internet cuts – after four days of massive protests triggered

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) backs the calls voiced by representatives of 85 provincial radio stations in Afghanistan in response to the problems they have encountered since the Taliban took power last August. Above all, they are asking the country’s new authorities to give them better access to information and to allow women journalists to work