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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for a review of opposition TV channel director Nika Gvaramia’s unprecedented and probably politically motivated conviction for “abusing his position” at the TV channel he previously ran, for which he was sentenced to three and a half years in prison. RSF is concerned about the growing threats to Independent and […]

Canada says it will ban two of China’s biggest telecoms equipment makers from working on its 5G phone networks. The restrictions against Huawei and ZTE were announced by the country’s industry minister on Thursday. Francois-Philippe Champagne says the move will improve Canada’s mobile internet services and “protect the safety and security of Canadians”. But Huawei

2022-05-23. Now in its 21st year, WAN-IFRA’s Asian Media Awards (AMA22) aims to promote the highest publishing standards in the fields of newspaper and magazine design, infographics, editorial content, marketing, community service, revenue diversification and photojournalism. Several major Asian news publishers won big at this year’s WAN-IFRA’s Asian Media Awards. They are among the 39

Delivering a keynote speech at the Press Club Event under the theme “State of the Economy and Talks with the IMF”, Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) Governor Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe said that Sri Lanka is going through one of the worst economic crises ever since Independence, resulting in widespread social unrest. The event was

As 23 May marks the anniversary of the hijacking of a plane by Alexander Lukashenko’s regime to arrest journalist Raman Pratasevich, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reminds the world that 27 media professionals are locked up in Belarusian prisons and urges for their release. Twenty-three May will mark the first anniversary of the hijacking of the Athens-Vilnius

2022-05-13. [Official statement] WAN-IFRA demands independent inquiry into killing of the prominent Palestinian-American journalist, urging Israel to cooperate fully in bringing perpetrators to account. [Link to protest letter here. Arabic here] WAN-IFRA and the World Editors Forum have written to the Israeli Prime Minister to echo demands made by United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, Arab states,

The Sri Lanka Press Institute, its constituent members and affiliated organizations, emphasize the  need for Democratic Rights and Rule of Law to prevail without any infringement from the government during the present time of unrest. Essentially, the right to free speech and expression, safety of journalists in the line of duty and every other democratic

Eight years after French photojournalist Camille Lepage was killed in the Central African Republic (CAR), Reporters Without Borders (RSF) regrets that the investigations into her still unexplained death ground to a complete halt several years ago, and calls on the French and Central African judicial authorities to revive their efforts to shed light on the

2022-05-11. Prominent Al Jazeera correspondent was reporting from the occupied West Bank town of Jenin when she was shot and critically wounded. Shireen Abu Akleh, prominent Palestinian-American journalist and veteran correspondent of the conflict between Israel and Palestine, was shot while reporting on a military raid in the Jenin refugee camp. She was taken to

Alongside other NGOs defending press freedom, RSF asks the Albanian Commissioner for the Right to Access to Information and Personal Data Protection to shed light upon the private data breaches and intimidation of at least two journalists who investigated a public interest issue: the vetting process of the now dismissed Tirana Chief Prosecutor Elizabeta Imeraj