Since the Taliban took power in Afghanistan on 15 August 2021, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has helped to evacuate 202 Afghan journalists in danger and has carried out a total of 152 measures to provide them with emergency administrative and financial assistance. Fearing reprisals, many journalists wanted to flee as soon as Kabul fell to […]
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Popular TV news channel ARY News has been taken off the air in most Pakistani cities and its news director, Ammad Yousaf, has been arrested. This brutal censorship bears the military high command’s stamp, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says, calling on the civilian authorities to restore the TV channel’s signal and drop all charges against its journalists.
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In recent weeks, the governments in the autonomous regions of Syrian and Iraqi Kurdistan have been targeting journalists working for TV channels linked to rival political parties. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the authorities in the two Kurdistans to stop sacrificing media pluralism to political rivalry. “As so often in this complex region, journalists
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Image : GETTY IMAGES Meta has announced new privacy features for WhatsApp users. Users will be able to leave group chats silently, control who can see their online status and block screenshots on View Once messages. Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said this would help keep WhatsApp messaging “as private and secure as face-to-face conversations”.
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Burkina Faso’s president to promote press freedom instead of paralysing the country’s media regulator, the Superior Council for Communication (CSC), or trying to take it over. Tasked with ensuring respect for journalistic ethics, promoting freedom of expression and safeguarding the media’s access to sources of information, the CSC ceased
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is dismayed to learn that Do Cong Duong, a jailed citizen-journalist who had been extremely ill for months, died in detention last week, and calls on the international community to take action to ensure the survival of other journalists held in Vietnam’s prisons. The official cause of the 58-year-old Do Cong Duong’s death
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Google experienced a major international internet outage on Tuesday, technology platforms reported. The realtime online platform Downdetector reported users had registered problems with Google explorer, the world’s dominant search engine from 2.12am BST (9.12pm EST, 11.12AM AEST. As of 11.38AM, there had been 4,113 confirmed reports of Google outages. Users said sister platforms Gmail, Google
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We, the undersigned free expression, press freedom, and journalists’ organisations, express support for The Shift News as it faces an all-out legal battle against 40 freedom of information (FOI) lawsuits brought by 40 government entities in Malta. These appeal lawsuits pose a serious threat to the country’s already worrying freedom of information and press freedom
In the two years since Alexander Lukashenko’s disputed reelection in August 2020, Belarusian journalists have had to adapt the way they work in order to avoid being silenced. To find out more, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) interviewed some of those who fled abroad. Read in Russian / Читать на русском “Independent journalists are resisting in
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the unacceptable targeting of Palestinian journalists while they were covering tension and incidents during the past weekend in Jerusalem against a backdrop of Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip. “It is sad to see that Palestinian journalists are still easy targets because they are Palestinians,” RSF’s Middle East desk said. “Not only do
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