Sachini Kavindya

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is very concerned about the fate of three journalists and two press freedom activists who fled from Myanmar to neighbouring Thailand and who are now facing possible deportation back Myanmar, where their lives would be in danger. RSF calls on Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to prevent their deportation and has […]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by the sentence of six and a half years in prison that a court in southern Uzbekistan passed yesterday on YouTube video blogger Otabek Sattoryi on trumped-up charges of extortion and defamation. The Uzbek courts must overturn his conviction and recognise his innocence, RSF says. The founder and editor

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the reinstatement of four editors-in-chief with the Polish regional media group Polska Press who were fired by the Polish state-controlled oil company that acquired the group, although a competition court has frozen the acquisition. RSF also calls on Poland’s competition watchdog to ensure that their dismissal is rescinded. Their

Five journalists and bloggers, driven into exile in Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine by a harsh crackdown on press freedom in Belarus, have agreed to speak today at an online conference organised by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Lithuanian embassy in France. More than 50 independent Belarusian journalists have been forced to flee their country

An independent commission’s report into relations between the French police and media has recommended many concrete measures to provide better protection to journalists covering protests. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) will ensure that these recommendations are incorporated into police regulations and practice. Chaired by Jean-Marie Delarue, the former head of France’s National Consultative Commission on Human