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Two French lawyers presented evidence to a court in Cameroon yesterday which they said showed the charges against Amadou Vamoulké, the jailed former head of the state-owned national radio and TV broadcaster CRTV, were unfounded and should be dropped. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the authorities to end the judicial conspiracy against the 71-year-old […]

Two Palestinian journalists were arrested by Israeli security forces in Jerusalem yesterday and were placed in administrative detention today, bringing the total now held administratively by the Israelis to 13. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns Israel’s misuse of administrative detention to hound Palestinian reporters. A video showing yesterday’s arrest of the two Alkofiya TV journalists

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has submitted on 28th May an urgent appeal to the United Nations (UN) to “take all measures necessary to obtain the immediate release” of Hong Kong media outlet Apple Daily founder and 2020 RSF Press Freedom Awards laureate Jimmy Lai. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has submitted on 28th of May 2021

Four days after the Belarusian authorities hijacked a Ryanair flight and arrested the journalist Raman Pratasevich, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) organised a protest yesterday on the border between Lithuania and Belarus in support of the more than 20 journalists detained arbitrarily in Belarus. Читать на русском / Read in Russian The Belarusian, Lithuanian and French

The day after diverting a Ryanair flight between Athens and Vilnius in order to detain journalist and activist Raman Pratasevich, Belarusian President Alexandre Lukashenko approved draconian amendments to his country’s media law to step up his war on journalism. Читать на русском / Read in Russian The world has been stunned by the hijacking of

WhatsApp is suing the Indian government over new digital rules that will force the messaging service to violate privacy protections. It said rules that require tracing the origin of chats were the equivalent of keeping a “fingerprint of every single message sent on the service”. In February, the government introduced new guidelines to regulate content

Twitter has expressed concern over freedom of expression in India, days after police visited its offices. The police served notice to the social media giant after it labelled a ruling party tweet “manipulated media”. Twitter had applied the label to a post by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Sambit Patra. The government has said Twitter

Following a meeting with a senior criminal prosecutor in Vilnius today, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) secretary-general Christophe Deloire hailed the decision by the Lithuanian prosecutor-general’s office to investigate Belarusian President Alexandre Lukashenko for criminal hijacking, exactly as RSF requested. Читать на русском / Read in Russian In a complaint filed in Vilnius on 25 May,

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is alarmed and outraged by US journalist Danny Fenster’s arrest as he was about to leave Myanmar on 24 May and calls for his immediate and unconditional release. Colleagues think he is being held incommunicado in Yangon’s Insein prison, where journalists are often mistreated and tortured. The managing editor of the

Since assuming office three months ago, Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) Director of Broadcasting Patrick Li has already censored hundreds of hours of content. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges the Hong Kong government to dismiss him at once and stop interfering with the public broadcaster’s editorial independence. Since 1st March, the day Patrick Li took