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After talking to journalists in Kashmir, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) demands the immediate reopening of the Kashmir Press Club, now officially closed for good after being invaded by agents of the New Delhi-run local government and paramilitaries last week. Kashmiri journalists used the club to discuss their problems and defend press freedom, RSF says. Located […]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is asking the UN to set up an independent international commission of enquiry into the death of Baktash Abtin, an Iranian journalist and writer who died on 8 January as a result of not being treated when he caught Covid-19 in Tehran’s Evin prison. A member of the Iranian Writers’ Association, Baktash

Our organisations note the announcement by Prime Minister Abela of the appointment of a Committee of Experts to implement the recommendations of the Public Inquiry into the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia. The Public Inquiry recommendations include the recognition in law of journalism as the fourth pillar of democracy, and the need to create an enabling environment for

The undersigned organisations reiterate their support for award-winning journalist and author, Carole Cadwalladr, who is facing a week-long defamation trial in London this week. Carole Cadwalladr, who works for the Guardian Media Group in the UK, is being sued as an individual by millionaire businessman and political donor Arron Banks, best known for his role as co-founder of

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has asked the United Nations and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe to examine the alarming escalation in violence and obstruction to which journalists are being subjected when trying to cover the continuing protests in Kazakhstan and the government’s use of deadly force to suppress them. The media victims

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Haiti’s authorities to conduct an exemplary and exhaustive investigation into last week’s shocking murders of two journalists in the capital, Port-au-Prince, and to provide immediate protection to a third journalist who miraculously escaped their attackers. Reporters Wilguens Louissaint and John Wesley Amady were captured and shot dead on 6 January in Laboule 12, an

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of a reporter for The Kashmir Walla website who has been detained in a completely arbitrary manner for the past six days in Indian-administered Kashmir and is facing the possibility of more than six years in prison for nothing more than a tweet. Sajad Ahmad Dar,

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by a Nigerian intelligence agency’s harassment of an Abuja-based news website with the aim of identifying its source for a leaked memo questioning the head of the agency’s qualifications for the job. Is the director general of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Nigeria’s foreign intelligence service, trying to eliminate