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Turkey’s never-ending judicial persecution of former newspaper editor

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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns Turkey’s political and judicial persecution of former newspaper editor Can Dündar, who was already sentenced in absentia last December to 27 years in prison for “spying” and “assisting a terrorist organisation” and who is now facing possible life imprisonment in a trial that resumed today in Istanbul. This persecution discredits […]

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Palestinian reporter held by Israelis has been on hunger strike for past week

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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of Alaa Al-Rimawi, a Palestinian journalist based in the West Bank city of Ramallah who has been on hunger strike ever since his arrest by the Israeli authorities a week ago. A reporter for Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera, Al-Rimawi was arrested by Israeli police who were

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NSO Group hasn’t kept its promises on human rights, RSF and other NGOs say

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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and eight other NGOs have sent a joint letter to NSO Group, an Israeli company that produces spyware, accusing it of failing to keep many of the undertakings it has given to respect and implement the UN’s Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. This was a missed opportunity for NSO

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New Guide to Help Activate Cultural Change for News Publishers Launched

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2021-04-28. WAN-IFRA publishes a new guide to help media executives initiate change in their newsrooms. The handbook summarizes key lessons shared during the Cultural Change Ignition Program for Latin American News Publishers. The Cultural Change Ignition Program was co-organised by WAN-IFRA and the Facebook Journalism Project from October 2020 to January 2021. It worked with 30 media leaders from

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Two Spanish journalists killed in eastern Burkina Faso

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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled to learn that two Spanish journalists were killed yesterday in an armed attack in eastern Burkina Faso. This latest tragedy for journalism is another reminder of the considerable risks involved in reporting in Africa’s Sahel region, RSF said. War reporter David Beriain and cameraman Roberto Fraile were killed when

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RSF begins research into mechanisms for protecting journalists in Latin America

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With the support of UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation), Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has begun evaluating the implementation and effectiveness of mechanisms for protecting journalists in four Latin American countries, with the aim of helping to improve such mechanisms throughout the region. Nearly 80% of the murders of journalists in Latin

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RSF demands release of detained Indian journalist Siddique Kappan, hospitalised with Covid-19

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The New Delhi-based journalist Siddique Kappan, chained to a hospital bed for almost a week, is in a critical condition and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) demands that the Uttar Pradesh provincial authorities order his immediate release. As reported by RSF, Kappan was arrested in October 2020 while travelling from New Delhi to Uttar Pradesh to

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Vietnam sentences journalist Tran Thi Tuyet Dieu to eight years in prison

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A Vietnamese court sentenced the journalist and blogger Tran Thi Tuyet Dieu to eight years’ imprisonment on April 23. Dieu, who once worked for the state media, began investigating taboo subjects and posting articles on the Internet in order to put her fellow citizens in the picture. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for her immediate

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Democracies need “reciprocity mechanism” to combat propaganda by authoritarian regimes

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Legal action in Europe involving China Global Television Network (CGTN), the Chinese state TV broadcaster, has highlighted the degree to which despotic governments export their propaganda while barring independent news media domestically. Democracies must respond to this dangerous imbalance by imposing the same positive obligations on foreign media as on their own media. Reciprocity is

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