Tag: Reporters Sans Frontieres
RSF calls for ‘democratic obligations’ on leading digital players over Trump
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In the wake of Twitter’s decision to shut down President Donald Trump’s accounts for good, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has proposed...
RSF hails UK court blocking of US bid to extradite Julian...
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is relieved by the January 4 ruling of UK District Judge Vanessa Baraitser to block the United...
RSF’s 2020 Round-up: 50 journalists killed, two-thirds in countries ‘at peace’
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A total of 50 journalists were killed worldwide in 2020, according to the second part of the annual round-up of abusive...
RSF protests over arrest of Filipina journalist for ‘planted firearms’
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) demands the immediate and unconditional release of Lady Ann Salem, a Manila-based alternative journalist who was arrested...
Facebook censorship on West Papua – then deafening silence
COMMENT: By David Robie
The silence from Facebook is deafening and disturbing.
At first, when I lodged my protests earlier this month to Facebook over the...
RSF brands Maria Ressa’s conviction as ‘masquerade’ amid global criticism
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the up to six years in jail sentence that Philippine journalist Maria Ressa faces on a...
RSF condemns attacks on US protest journalists fueled by Trump slurs
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Protests in at least 30 cities across the US following the police killing of George Floyd have resulted in violent attacks from...
Popular Philippines radio show host ‘Rex Cornello’ shot dead in ambush
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has urged the Philippine authorities to appoint a special independent team to investigate yesterday’s "shocking murder" of an...
RSF launches coronavirus pandemic media freedom tracker
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Launched by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), “Tracker 19” is a tool made for an unprecedented global crisis.
So named in reference not only...
RSF concerned about ‘lack of evidence’ in US extradition case against...
By RSF in London
During the first week of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s US extradition hearing in London, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) was concerned by...
RSF condemns ‘tax evasion’ charge used to harass Philippine website
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Reporters Without Borders has condemned the tax evasion charges that the Philippine Department of Justice is bringing against the independent news...
RSF open letter plea to Suu Kyi for Myanmar journalists’ freedom
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Five days after Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were sentenced to seven years in prison on a trumped-up...
RSF calls on Nauru to allow banned ABC to cover Pacific...
By Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Nauru to rescind its decision to bar Australia’s public radio and TV broadcaster, ABC,...
‘Sick joke’, threats cited in Asia-Pacific declining media freedom summit
Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Christophe Deloire talks about the global threat against journalists. Video: Café Pacific
By David Robie in Paris
When Reporters Without Borders chief...
RSF plea to Indonesia to investigate reporter’s death in detention
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called for an independent inquiry into the death in detention of Muhammad Yusuf, a reporter who...
China’s media control threatens Asia-Pacific democracies, says RSF
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The Chinese model of state-controlled news and information is being copied in other Asian countries, especially Vietnam and Cambodia, says the...
RSF shines light on ‘forbidden coverage’ of women’s rights
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To mark International Women’s Day tomorrow, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is publishing a report entitled “Women’s rights: Forbidden subject” which sheds...
RSF media freedom round-up for 2017 – 65 journalists killed, 326...
Al Jazeera's Neave Barker reports from London. Video: Al Jazeera/RSF
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Reporters Without Borders has documented the number of journalists killed or jailed...
RSF condemns ‘gag’ of Tonga’s state broadcaster ahead of general election
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned moves by Prime Minister ‘Akilisi Pōhiva’s government to "gag" the Tonga Broadcasting Commission prior to...
Timely strategic research spotlights killings of journalists
A trailer for the controversial Anas investigation into corruption by Ghana's judiciary. Video: AnanseGH TV
BOOKS: By David Robie
The Ghanaian investigative journalist summed up the...
Public interest journalism at a ‘crossroads’, says MEAA
Australia's Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) says public interest journalism is at a "crossroads" in its submission to the country's Senate inquiry into the future...
RSF condemns media freedom ‘violations’, gag in PNG election
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned many media freedom violations during the general elections held in Papua New Guinea from 24...