Ahead of national elections in the Philippines on May 9, the State has stepped up its attacks on Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa and the news outlet she leads, Rappler. “This dramatic escalation in the legal harassment of Maria Ressa and Rappler highlights the urgent need for the Philippines’ to decriminalise libel and do away with laws that are repeatedly […]
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) used its Operation Collateral Freedom mirror site technology today to enable access to German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle’s Russian-language news website, which the Kremlin had been blocking within Russia since 4 March. Before it was blocked, Deutsche Welle’s Russian-language site was one of the most popular news sites in Russia, with an
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Russian journalist Zhanna Agalakova spoke at the Paris headquarters of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) yesterday about her decision to resign as Paris correspondent of Russia’s state-owned Pervi Kanal (Channel One television) and about her experiences behind the scenes at the Kremlin’s No. 1 media outlet. “This is an extremely powerful moment of truth at a
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A full year after President Biden was sworn into office, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) expresses serious concern over the state of press freedom in the United States, and urges the White House and 117th Congress to redouble efforts to ensure the safety of journalists and the protection of press freedom at home and abroad. Journalists
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for support for investigative journalism to be a leading topic at the summit that the EU’s Slovenian presidency is organising with the Western Balkans, where journalists who investigate major stories such as corruption and the Covid-19 pandemic are threatened by a lack of judicial independence and must compete with disinformation.
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo to quickly identify and punish the soldiers who broke into a journalist’s home this week in one of the two northeastern provinces where a state of siege in effect for the past six weeks is making journalism extremely difficult. Freelance reporter
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns French oil giant Total’s cancellation of a big ad campaign in the French daily Le Monde in reprisal for a story about Total’s funding of Myanmar’s military. The extremely shocking cynicism of this decision matches the hypocrisy with which Total has handled its operations in Myanmar since last February’s coup,
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The Swedish section of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has awarded its 2021 Press Freedom Prize to the new Hungarian news site telex.hu. The prize was presented during a webinar in Stockholm yesterday, World Press Freedom Day. RSF Sweden’s prize singles out journalists who show courage and independence, qualities that embody the journalistic ideal that RSF
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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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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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