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Arbitrary detention and proceedingsViolence against journalistsNews 22.09.2023 Two more foreign journalists deported by Morocco Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns Morocco's expulsion of two French journalists following their arrest on 20 September in Casablanca, where they had gone to do investigative reporting. Legal framework and justice systemNews 14.09.2023 French authorities must drop investigation into environmental photo-journalist RSF and several other media associations call on the French authorities to drop all proceedings against the photo-journalist Yoan Sthul-Jäger, who is being investigating for covering an environmental protest at a cement plant. Arbitrary detention and proceedingsNews 07.09.2023 Myanmar junta imposes record 20-year jail sentence on photojournalist RSF calls for the release of Myanmar photojournalist Sai Zaw Thaike, who was recently sentenced to a 20-year prison sentence, the longest given to a journalist in Myanmar since the military junta regained its power in February 2021. Legal framework and justice systemInternational laws and governanceNews 01.09.2023 Three journalists who covered the 2019 protests barred from entering Hong Kong over the last months RSF is appalled by the Hong Kong government’s barring of three freelance journalists who covered the 2019 pro-democracy demonstrations from entering the territory in separate occasions over the last few months. Legal framework and justice systemNews 23.08.2023 Hong Kong: The four-year judicial ordeal of Swiss photojournalist who covered a 2019 demonstration RSF denounces the Kafkaesque situation experienced by Swiss freelance photojournalist Marc Progin, prosecuted over the past four years. Legal framework and justice systemNews 10.08.2023 RSF urges South Korea to stop restricting journalists’ foreign travel As photojournalist Jang Jin-young is appealing a conviction for travelling to Ukraine “without official authorisation”, RSF urges South Korean authorities to amend without delay a legal provision restricting the rights of journalists to travel Technological censorship and surveillanceViolence against journalistsNews 09.08.2023 Palestinian journalists hounded in both Gaza Strip and West Bank Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the arrests, threats and attacks from all quarters that prevent journalists from reporting the news in Palestine. In the Gaza Strip, Palestinian security forces prevented reporters from covering peaceful protests Pagination Précédent Précédent First page 1 … Current page 2 Page 3 … Page 4 Next Next Subjects All subjects Actions RSF Legal framework and justice system Technological censorship and surveillance Disinformation and propaganda Arbitrary detention and proceedings International laws and governance Digital space and democracy Independence and pluralism Models and good practices Media sustainability Violence against journalists
Legal framework and justice systemArbitrary detention and proceedingsViolence against journalistsNews 24.10.2023 “Media coverage saved me,” says journalist Mortaza Behboudi held for nine months in Afghanistan Mortaza Behboudi, a freelance journalist with French and Afghan dual nationality, described his nine months in Afghan prisons
Legal framework and justice systemArbitrary detention and proceedingsModels and good practicesNews 19.10.2023 Canada: Police can’t decide who is and isn’t a journalist RSF firmly rejects the legal argument made by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) denying that photojournalist Amber Bracken was working as a journalist while reporting on a pipeline protest in 2021.
Arbitrary detention and proceedingsViolence against journalistsNews 22.09.2023 Two more foreign journalists deported by Morocco Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns Morocco's expulsion of two French journalists following their arrest on 20 September in Casablanca, where they had gone to do investigative reporting.
Legal framework and justice systemNews 14.09.2023 French authorities must drop investigation into environmental photo-journalist RSF and several other media associations call on the French authorities to drop all proceedings against the photo-journalist Yoan Sthul-Jäger, who is being investigating for covering an environmental protest at a cement plant.
Arbitrary detention and proceedingsNews 07.09.2023 Myanmar junta imposes record 20-year jail sentence on photojournalist RSF calls for the release of Myanmar photojournalist Sai Zaw Thaike, who was recently sentenced to a 20-year prison sentence, the longest given to a journalist in Myanmar since the military junta regained its power in February 2021.
Legal framework and justice systemInternational laws and governanceNews 01.09.2023 Three journalists who covered the 2019 protests barred from entering Hong Kong over the last months RSF is appalled by the Hong Kong government’s barring of three freelance journalists who covered the 2019 pro-democracy demonstrations from entering the territory in separate occasions over the last few months.
Legal framework and justice systemNews 23.08.2023 Hong Kong: The four-year judicial ordeal of Swiss photojournalist who covered a 2019 demonstration RSF denounces the Kafkaesque situation experienced by Swiss freelance photojournalist Marc Progin, prosecuted over the past four years.
Legal framework and justice systemNews 10.08.2023 RSF urges South Korea to stop restricting journalists’ foreign travel As photojournalist Jang Jin-young is appealing a conviction for travelling to Ukraine “without official authorisation”, RSF urges South Korean authorities to amend without delay a legal provision restricting the rights of journalists to travel
Technological censorship and surveillanceViolence against journalistsNews 09.08.2023 Palestinian journalists hounded in both Gaza Strip and West Bank Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the arrests, threats and attacks from all quarters that prevent journalists from reporting the news in Palestine. In the Gaza Strip, Palestinian security forces prevented reporters from covering peaceful protests