Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns logging company FIPCAM’s judicial harassment of Cameroonian journalist Nestor Nga Etoga for the past five years after he investigated some of its practices. RSF calls on the company and Cameroon’s justice system to put a stop to the use of legal proceedings to try to silence this journalist. Etoga, who […]
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Four leading Nordic dailies have published an open letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping denouncing press freedom violations in Hong Kong. “The world can no longer stand idly by as China gradually sucks the air out of freedom of the press in Hong Kong,” says the letter published today, the centenary of the founding of
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After writing to 12 international corporations last April about their activities in Myanmar, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has written to them again urging them to take concrete steps to stop financing the military junta, either directly or indirectly, in order not to be complicit in the relentless horrific crackdown currently under way. Despite five months
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) supports a call by Javaid Rehman, the UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran, for an international investigation into Iranian President-elect Ebrahim Raisi’s role in the massacre of thousands of political prisoners, including hundreds of journalists, in 1988, when he was a prosecutor. In an interview for Reuters
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the concerted effort under way in Madagascar for the past week to smear French freelance journalist Gaëlle Borgia after she embarrassed the government by posting a video on Facebook illustrating the desperation to which a major famine has driven some Madagascans. Based in Madagascar for more than ten years, reporting
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of Hong Kong press freedom defender Claudia Mo, an ex-legislator and former journalist who has been detained for four months and faces a life sentence under the National Security Law. Claudia Mo, 64, a former Hong Kong Legislative Council member and ex-journalist, who was a prominent
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Killings come amid a surge in gang violence in the Haitian capital that has displaced thousands in recent weeks. A journalist and a political activist are among at least five people killed in a spate of overnight shootings in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, the government said on Wednesday, as a press freedom group urged authorities to
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2021-06-30. Hearst Connecticut Media Group in the United States has launched a news site called CTInsider.com as a way to reach new readers throughout Connecticut. The company has also been hiring editorial staff specifically for the new venture. “We feel very, very fortunate, frankly, that we’re part of Hearst,” says Mike DeLuca, Group Publisher and
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2021-06-30. Code for Africa has made it its mission to provide citizens with access to actionable information to strengthen civic engagement for improved public governance and accountability. With teams in 21 countries and major offices in Cape Town, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and Lagos, Code for Africa (CfA) is the continent’s largest network of civic
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2021-06-30. The second edition of WAN-IFRA’s Indian Media Leaders eSummit (IMLeS) is being held virtually from 28 to 30 June, with close to 250 news media executives from more than 35 organisations in attendance. The conference, themed ‘Ideas for post-pandemic future,’ covered a gamut of news publishing topics, such as business transformation, sustainable business models
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