Sachini Kavindya

RSF questions Russian YouTuber’s five-year jail sentence on “state secrets” charge

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) accuses the Russian authorities of violating the rights of Andrei Pyzh, a YouTuber based in Saint Petersburg who was sentenced to five years in prison on a charge of obtaining and sharing state secrets at the end of an opaque and unfair trial amid heightened tension with Ukraine. He must be […]

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Nigerian journalist to appear before judge after being held arbitrarily for two months

On the eve of his appearance before a judge tomorrow, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the prolonged arbitrary detention of Luka Binniyat, a journalist who is charged with cyber-crime and false information in his coverage of massacres in Kaduna state, in northern Nigeria. A reporter for The Epoch Times, a newspaper based in the United States,

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Serbia unable to render justice to reporter whose home was torched

Following a Belgrade appeal court decision to quash the conviction of those accused of torching investigative reporter Milan Jovanovic’s house in 2018, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Serbian authorities to organise a new trial as a matter of urgency, and to renew Jovanovic’s protection. The appeal court issued its decision on Christmas Eve after its

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Reporter killed in Myanmar military attack near Thai border

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the international community to toughen its sanctions on Myanmar’s military junta after a journalist who was covering the plight of refugees in the southeastern state of Kayin was killed during an army artillery attack near the border with Thailand on 25 December. Federal News Journal editor Sai Win Aung, also known

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China: RSF urges for release of ailing Covid-19 reporter Zhang Zhan on the one-year anniversary of her sentence

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges for the release of Chinese Covid-19 journalist and 2021 RSF Press Freedom laureate Zhang Zhan, who was sentenced to four years in prison one year ago for covering Covid-19, and is now facing impending death. Tuesday 28th December will mark one year since Zhang Zhan, a Chinese journalist who covered the

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RSF asks Polish president not to sign draconian “Lex TVN” bill into law

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Polish President Andrzej Duda to veto a media law amendment that would enable the government to take control of TVN, Poland’s leading independent TV network. Passed by parliament last week, the amendment restricting foreign ownership of Poland’s broadcast media would force TVN’s American owners to sell their controlling stake

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L’Alternative newspaper targeted by Togo’s government

After repeatedly targeting the biweekly newspaper L’Alternative in recent years with administrative sanctions, judicial proceedings and surveillance, Togo’s authorities have finally jailed its editor, Ferdinand Ayité. Attempts have often been made to intimidate Ayité during his 20 or so years as a journalist but this is the first time he has found himself in a

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