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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by the sentence of six and a half years in prison that a court in southern Uzbekistan passed yesterday on YouTube video blogger Otabek Sattoryi on trumped-up charges of extortion and defamation. The Uzbek courts must overturn his conviction and recognise his innocence, RSF says. The founder and editor […]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the reinstatement of four editors-in-chief with the Polish regional media group Polska Press who were fired by the Polish state-controlled oil company that acquired the group, although a competition court has frozen the acquisition. RSF also calls on Poland’s competition watchdog to ensure that their dismissal is rescinded. Their

Five journalists and bloggers, driven into exile in Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine by a harsh crackdown on press freedom in Belarus, have agreed to speak today at an online conference organised by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Lithuanian embassy in France. More than 50 independent Belarusian journalists have been forced to flee their country

An independent commission’s report into relations between the French police and media has recommended many concrete measures to provide better protection to journalists covering protests. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) will ensure that these recommendations are incorporated into police regulations and practice. Chaired by Jean-Marie Delarue, the former head of France’s National Consultative Commission on Human

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by the disturbing and unacceptable practices threatening media independence in Israel that have come to light during the evidentiary stage of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial, which began last month and resumed in Jerusalem yesterday. Much of it is focussing on Netanyahu’s’ attempts to manipulate the editorial line

Haemorrhaging advertisers even since the Russian justice ministry listed it as a “foreign agent,” the news website Meduza has been forced to close bureaux and slash salaries in the past week. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the listing as a serious violation of media pluralism and urges Russia to repeal its draconian “foreign agents” law.

2021-05-03. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the German newspaper has seen its digital subscriptions grow by over 60%. A major factor behind this increase is the publisher’s long-term commitment to quality science reporting. The Covid-19 pandemic has made the news publishing environment more challenging in many ways. But the crisis has also highlighted the