Reporters Without Borders

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to include Israeli air strikes on more than 20 media outlets in the Gaza Strip in her investigation into the situation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Targeted Israeli airforce attacks have destroyed the premises of 23 Palestinian and international media […]

July 8, 2020 – Four Yemeni journalists and an Iranian editor are under sentence death and await execution. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the use of the death penalty, an antiquated form of punishment, to threaten journalists in some parts of the world. The Yemeni journalists Abdul Khaleq Amran, Akram Al-Walidi, Hareth Humaid and Tawfiq Al-Mansouri were found guilty […]

June 15, 2020 – Covid-19 was declared a worldwide pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11 March, since then it has been used as a pretext by governments to put constitutional guarantees on hold. Now that relative calm appears to be in prospect, it is imperative that these exceptional measures be lifted. Faced […]

May 20, 2020 – Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns Beijing’s expulsion early May of New York Times correspondent who reported extensively on Covid-19 and urges the Chinese authorities to put an end to visa reprisals against journalists. Chris Buckley, a foreign correspondent with The New York Times who spent 76 days in Wuhan reporting on the Covid-19 crisis, […]

December 17, 2019 – RSF USA’s analysis of the statistics collected in the 2019 Roundup shows that more journalists were deliberately targeted, murdered, and imprisoned in 2019 than in years previous, particularly those covering corruption, human rights violations, or organized crime. Donald Trump’s hostility towards the independent media is spreading and amplifying already dangerous conditions for journalists […]

August 26, 2019 –  Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for an immediate end to a two-day-old Internet blackout in West Papua, where Indonesian security forces have been clashing with Papuan pro-independence demonstrators. The blackout violates the freedom to inform and makes it hard for journalists to work, RSF said. Internet access in West Papua was […]

Aug. 5, 2019 – More than three years since Turkey’s 2016 failed coup and one year after its state of emergency was lifted, the government continues its relentless and pervasive crackdown on civic space, media freedom and dissenting voices. Turkey’s human rights record will come under review by the UN Human Rights Council during the […]

May 22, 2019 – Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is dismayed by the latest blow to editorial independence in Russia, in which two journalists at the leading Moscow business daily Kommersant were fired, 11 of their colleagues resigned in protest and then more than 200 of the newspaper’s journalists issued a joint warning that its readers […]

April 23, 2019 – Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is relieved by the release of two journalists who were held for months for covering an Islamist insurrection in Cabo Delgado province, in northeastern Mozambique, but calls for the withdrawal of the spurious charges brought against them. Amade Abubacar and Germano Daniela Adriano, who work for local radio and […]

April 18, 2019 – The 2019 World Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) shows how hatred of journalists has degenerated into violence, contributing to an increase in fear. The number of countries regarded as safe, where journalists can work in complete security, continues to decline, while authoritarian regimes continue to tighten their […]

April 10, 2019 – How should the European Union best defend media freedom and independence and media pluralism in a continent badly shaken by a series of grave attacks and violations against journalists? Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has ten proposals for the candidates in the European parliamentary elections to be held in six weeks’ time. […]