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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who plans to attend the UN General Assembly session opening in New York on Tuesday 13 September, must be held to account for his involvement in the 1988 massacre of thousands of political prisoners, including several hundred journalists, says Reporters Without Borders (RSF), pointing out that, even now, 22 journalists are […]

Celebrated journalist Jeff German was found killed outside his Las Vegas home on the morning of September 3. On September 7, police arrested Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles in connection with the murder. German had previously investigated and written about misconduct in the Commissioner’s office. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is urging the authorities to

Image:Sérgio Dávila in the editorial office of Folha de Sao Paulo, the most respected and feared newspaper in Brazil. Image: EDUARDO KNAPP (FOLHAPRESS) 2022-09-08. With the upcoming elections, the Brazilian journalist and leader of the great South American newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo, faces a great challenge for the country and for his newspaper. by

2022-09-08. Three journalists and editor-in-chief/WAN-IFRA board member Lina Atallah were charged with slander, defamation, and publishing false news “intended to disturb the public peace and cause damage to the public interest.” by Andrew Heslop andrew.heslop@wan-ifra.org | September 8, 2022 Journalists Rana Mamdouh, Sara Seif Eddin and Beesan Kassab, along with Atallah, were released on bail on Wednesday

Image:   Two police officers patrol a street in Moscow in August 2022. Authorities searched the homes of five journalists on September 8, 2022, over their alleged connection to a former Duma member charged with spreading false information about the Russian army. (AFP/Natalia Kolesnikova) Paris, September 8, 2022—Russian authorities should stop using investigations into so-called “fake”

In May, editors at the pro-abortion rights news website Rewire took the extraordinary step of removing reporters’ biographies from the web site.The move was a safety precaution: After the leak of a draft of a majority Supreme Court opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organizationto overturn the constitutional right to abortion, reporters at Rewire grew concerned about a

Four journalists have recently been arrested and prevented from working. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is stunned by the lack of the Swedish police’s knowledge about the legal protection of press freedom. On 22 August the police in Stockholm arrested a journalist, Markus Jordö, while he was working on a documentary for Swedish public service television, SVT. He

Image: La journaliste Vera Magalhães et le candidat Bolsonaro lors du premier débat présidentiel, le 28/11/2022 Exclusive: The campaign for Brazil’s two-round presidential election on 2 and 30 October has just begun. Each week, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) will monitor more than 100 Twitter and Facebook accounts of journalists, government officials and candidates with the aim

For the past six months, independent and opposition journalists in Russia have been prevented from covering the activities of Russia’s armed forces by the threat of 15 years in prison. The law adopted on 4 March was just the first in a series of anti-media laws. After analysing these additions to the Kremlin’s legislative arsenal,

Image:Hackers target politicians with fake news website Hackers created a fake news website to harvest data from Australian government officials, journalists and others, according to a top US security company. The targets received emails claiming to be from Australian news outlets, which linked them to a malicious website. The website, populated with articles stolen from