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Zimbabwe Media Freedom Committee Takes Root

2021-12-17. The Zimbabwe MFC proposes to emphasize the importance of building extensive networks and alliances while continuing capacity building, information sharing with peers, advocacy benchmarks, connecting with community newspapers and global engagement alike. By Alex Fitoussi On Thursday December 9th, over two dozen media professionals gathered for a virtual conference on the current state of […]

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Belarus – “We cannot give up our struggle for freedom of the press”

Seven months after what was a terrible day for TUT.BY, Belarus’s leading independent news website, one of its journalists, Aleksandra Pushkina, describes for Reporters Without Borders (RSF) how this popular media outlet was persecuted and issues an appeal for support for her imprisoned colleagues and the country’s independent media. On 18 May 2021, the Belarusian

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UN experts recognize the detention of Belarusian journalist Raman Pratasevich arbitrary and demand his release

RSF and six civil society organizations welcome the opinion of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) to recognise that Belarusian journalist Raman Pratasevich is a victim of arbitrary detention and urge the international community to exert pressure on Belarus to release Raman Pratasevich and drop the criminal case against him. Читать на

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Slovakia must be more ambitious in its support for media independence, RSF says

Ten months after receiving a Slovak governmental delegation led by then Prime Minister Igor Matovic (who is now deputy prime minister), Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has a mixed assessment of the measures proposed by the government to support journalism and trustworthy reporting. In response to RSF’s call at the meeting in February to “move from

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Instagram sorry for blocking user named metaverse

Instagram has apologised for wrongly disabling the account of an artist with the handle @metaverse, for a month. On 2 November, Australian technologist and artist Thea-Mai Baumann had been told she had been “blocked for pretending to be someone else” the New York Times first reported. Five day’s earlier, Instagram’s parent company, Facebook, had rebranded as

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World’s Press Alarmed by Chilling Effect on Danish Press Freedom

2021-12-14. WAN-IFRA and the World Editors Forum have condemned moves by Danish intelligence services to warn the country’s top media against publishing potentially classified information. The country’s two highest-ranking intelligence chiefs delivered separate warnings to JP/Politikens Hus CEO, Stig Ørskov, and Berlingske Media’s chief executive, Anders Krab-Johansen following the recent arrest of four intelligence officers

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RSF condemns the UK High Court’s decision allowing for Julian Assange’s extradition to the US, and calls for his immediate release

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the decision of the UK High Court ruling that Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange can be extradited to the United States, where he faces possible life imprisonment for publishing information in the public interest. RSF calls yet again for Assange’s immediate release, and for the US government to drop its more

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