Hong Kong Chief Executive, Carrie Lam, has been hosting a daily talk show on public broadcaster RTHK since 28th April. This parody of journalism enables her to promote unpopular policies without exposing herself to questions from journalists. We are our own best advocates. On 28th April, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam sprung a surprise […]
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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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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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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A landmark case alleging Google illegally tracked millions of iPhone users is set for the Supreme Court. The case will not be about the claim itself but whether the complainant Richard Lloyd – the former director of consumer rights group Which? – can bring it on behalf of those affected. Two days of arguments will
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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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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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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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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
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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