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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of Ali Aboluhom, a Yemeni journalist based in Saudi Arabia who has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for tweets that, according to the Saudi authorities, constituted apostasy. Aboluhom has been detained since 23 August and was sentenced on 26 October. Based in Saudi Arabia since 2015, […]

Following US journalist Danny Fenster’s return to the United States after six months in a jail in Myanmar, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has retraced the week of events that led to his release – a week in which Myanmar’s generals used him as a bargaining chip in the most contemptible manner. “You become worried that

2021-11-16. The journalists working for Helsingin Sanomat, Finland’s leading daily newspaper, were charged over an article about an intelligence facility. The Finnish Deputy Prosecutor General has charged three journalists working for Helsingin Sanomat with disclosing and attempting to disclose state secrets. The prosecution follows a four-year investigation, provoked by a December 2017 article that examined the activities

Influential Ukrainian journalists are worried about the future of free speech in their country after the real estate developer who owns the Kyiv Post, Ukraine’s leading English-language newspaper, fired all of its staff. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is concerned that pressure was put on the newspaper over reporting critical of the government and urges the

Online hate speech in the UK and US has risen by 20% since the start of the pandemic, according to a new report. Youth charity Ditch the Label commissioned the study, which analysed 263 million conversations in the UK and US, between 2019 and mid-2021. It found 50.1 million discussions about, or examples of, racist

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by the murder of a journalist in Bihar state, in northeastern Indian, whose burned body was found at a roadside three days after he went missing while investigating illegal clinics. Those behind this shocking crime must be identified and brought to justice, RSF says. The charred body of Budhinath Jha,

On the occasion of the Paris Peace Forum, the Forum on Information and Democracy is unveiling the first names of the “prefiguration group” that will pave the way for the International Observatory on Information and Democracy, including Maria Ressa, 2021 Nobel Peace prize laureate. The prefiguration group will be guided by a steering committee whose

The Journalism Trust Initiative (JTI) was featured today on a high-level panel at the Paris Peace Forum. Participants, including the European Commission’s Vice-President Vera Jourova, emphasized the importance of the Initiative to reward reliable journalism and to support a healthier information ecosystem at large. “As disinformation is spreading online, we should offer people better tools

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) deplores the decline in the environment for media personnel in Aden, in southern Yemen, where a targeted car bomb attack this week killed a journalist and badly injured her husband, also a journalist. Yemen’s provisional capital, Aden is controlled by the Southern Transitional Council (STC). El Sharq TV correspondent Rasha Abdallah Alharazy was killed

US journalist Danny Fenster has been released from prison in Myanmar after he was sentenced to 11 years in jail by a military court three days ago. He was “pardoned” before being freed on “humanitarian grounds”, the military government said. The release was secured after negotiations between the junta and former US ambassador to the