Dozens of journalists demonstrated in Islamabad November 11 to condemn what they see as increasing governmental pressure on media, including censorship, the unfair dismissal of journalists, and the non-payment of salaries. They also demanded the restoration of the transmission of Channel 24 News
On the eve of the general elections in Burma, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) denounces the countless attacks on press freedom which have punctuated the electoral campaign and which have already discredited the results of this consultation. It has become the great forgotten point of the democratic transition in Burma, initiated ten years ago. Press freedom has …
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The complaint filed on behalf of RSF on 21 October 2020 by two Swedish lawyers to the Stockholm Prosecutor’s Office for International Crimes, denounces acts of crimes against humanity, torture, kidnapping and enforced disappearance of which the Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak
This Friday, October 16 marked the third anniversary of the assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia and takes place in a climate still worrying for press freedom, and while the absence of essential reforms is increasingly felt
Female journalists in Pakistan are demanding an end to online harassment, including threats of sexual assault, that they face for their work. After several journalists posted a petition on social media calling for action, the government proposed a new law to curb the harassments
The Kurdistan Autonomous Government’s international advocacy coordinator, Dindar Zebari, accused the journalist of having received “foreign funds with the aim of destabilizing the country”, a crime punishable by life imprisonment
On the occasion of the World Day against the Death Penalty, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Center for Human Rights Defenders in Iran call on the Iranian authorities to put an end to capital executions which target in particular prisoners of opinion, of which journalists
Four journalists covering the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh were injured in the shelling. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Azerbaijani authorities to shed light on the origin of these shootings and to do everything possible to secure the evacuation of the wounded
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and PEN International call on the Nicaraguan Congress to reject a bill providing for the registration of press correspondents as “foreign agents”, and denounce an increasingly complex working climate for the independent press in the country
An ongoing investigation into a hard-hitting journalist with Hong Kong’s government broadcaster RTHK will have a “chilling effect” on the city’s news organizations, the Hong Kong Journalists’ Association (HKJA)