Reporters Without Borders

Jan. 3, 2019 – Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the armed attacks on two radio stations in Afghanistan that were carried out at the end of last month, one in the western province of Herat on December 26 and one in the eastern province of Nuristan on December 23. In the latest attack, an RPG-2 […]

Nov. 13, 2018  – In a historic step in the context of the Paris Peace Forum today, 12 countries launched a political process aimed at providing democratic guarantees for news and information and freedom of opinion – a process based on the declaration issued last week by an independent commission that was created at the […]

Oct. 16, 2018 – The United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances is taking urgent action in the case of missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in response to a joint request by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and two other human rights NGOs. The UN Working Group confirmed to RSF yesterday that it initiated […]

Oct. 10, 2018 –  Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and two other human rights groups, Al Karama and ALQST, have jointly referred the case of the missing dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances. RSF is also calling for an independent international investigation to determine what happened to Khashoggi, a […]

Sept. 24, 2018 – Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the latest attack on press freedom in Russia, where the Duma (the parliament) last week passed amendments under which failure to remove prohibited content will be punishable by imprisonment. More draconian legislation is being considered. Long dubbed the “mad printer” because of the furious pace at […]

Sept. 11, 2018 – Seventy years after the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Paris, the Paris-based international NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF) announces the formation of a panel of 25 prominent figures with the aim of drafting an International Declaration on Information and Democracy. Co-chaired by Nobel peace laureate […]

July 27, 2018 – Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of Serafin Moran Santiago, an independent Cuban journalist who has been held in a detention facility in Pearsall, Texas, for more than three months. After being kidnapped, jailed, and persecuted by the Cuban government for his reporting, Santiago approached the US border seeking political […]

July 20, 2018 – Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the authorities in southern Italy’s Puglia region to publicly condemn the latest death threats received by Marilú Mastrogiovanni, a Puglia-based investigative reporter who has been under police protection for years, and to do whatever is necessary to ensure her safety. The editor of Il Tacco d’Italia, […]

July 12, 2018 – On July 13, 2018, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) will be marching in London to protest press freedom violations taking place in the United States. RSF’s UK bureau will be joining the mass demonstration scheduled to coincide with US President Trump’s visit to the UK. Trump is due to meet with UK […]

July 2, 2018 Five dead in targeted shooting at the Capital Gazette Five employees—including four journalists—were killed at the Capital Gazette, a local Annapolis, Maryland, newspaper, on June 28 in a targeted attack against the publication. The victims were editorial page editor Gerald Fischman, assistant editor Rob Hiaasen, staff writer John McNamara, special publications writer Wendi Winters, and sales assistant Rebecca […]

May 14, 2018 – Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has submitted a report about the grave decline in press freedom in Russia for today’s review by the UN Human Rights Council of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms in Russia. The report submitted by RSF, which has consultative status with the UN, shows that the situation […]

May 3, 2018 – To mark World Press Freedom Day (May 3), Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is launching a “#FightFakeNews” campaign, because combatting disinformation is now one of the biggest challenges for journalism’s defenders. The campaign’s key element is a TV spot entitled “#FightFakeNews” that was produced for RSF by the French creative agency BETC. […]

May 1, 2018 – The double suicide-bombing yesterday (30 April) in Kabul was the latest in an already long list of bloody attacks on media outlets and journalists, who have been deliberately killed in cold blood in many countries because their reporting caused annoyance. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has compiled a list of the deadliest […]

April 30, 2018 – We, the undersigned 26 international human rights, media and Internet freedom organizations, strongly condemn the attempts by the Russian Federation to block the Internet messaging service Telegram, which have resulted in extensive violations of freedom of expression and access to information, including mass collateral website blocking. We call on Russia to […]