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Press Freedom in Pakistan 2022: A flurry of cases, a high-profile murder and political rhetoric targeting the media

Pakistan Press Foundation released a year-end report which noted that despite the change in government, “little improvement has been seen in the state of press freedom”. This statement was originally published on pakistanpressfoundation.org on 31 December 2022. In a country where the press routinely remains under threat and faces attacks from many fronts, the media in Pakistan […]

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Crimean court sentences Ukrainian journalist to seven years in prison

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the sham trial that has ended with Ukrainian journalist Iryna Danilovych being sentenced to seven years in prison by a municipal court in Feodosia, in southeastern Crimea, on a charge of making explosives. Hounded by the Russian security authorities since 2016, this journalist must be freed at once, RSF says.

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How to track digital mercenaries behind disinformation

It is just as important to identify the actors who perpetuate disinformation as it is the false facts themselves: if a journalist is able to target the source of false information, they can expose and neutralize it. During an ICFJ Disarming Disinformation masterclass, held in partnership with the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, award-winning data journalist

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1,668 journalists killed in past 20 years (2003-2022), average of 80 per year

At the end of a year in which the number of journalists killed in connection with their work rose again, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has compiled and analysed the figures for journalists killed during the past 20 years – two especially deadly decades for those in the service of the right to inform. What with

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Tajik journalist Abdusattor Pirmuhammadzoda sentenced to 7 years in prison

Stockholm, December 28, 2022 – In response to news reports that Tajikistan authorities recently sentenced journalist Abdusattor Pirmuhammadzoda to seven years in prison, the Committee to Protect Journalists issued a statement on Wednesday condemning the ruling: “The trial of Abdusattor Pirmuhammadzoda, like the trials of five other journalists recently sentenced to lengthy prison terms on anti-state charges in

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RSF urges Hong Kong government to cease judicial harassment of two Stand News editors, one year after the media’s shutdown

One year after the forced shutdown of Hong Kong independent media Stand News, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges the government to drop all charges against two of the outlet’s former editors-in-chief, who face up to two years in prison for alleged “seditious publications.” Since the enactment of the National Security Law, reporting in Hong Kong

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