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After a relatively quiet year for press freedom in Poland, independent media are again being threatened by baseless political accusations, opaque regulatory proceedings and a discriminatory bill.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) welcomes the decision by Norway’s sovereign wealth fund to heed RSF’s warnings and place a Polish state-controlled company under surveillance because of the threat to press freedom.

Two journalists of the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper were found guilty of having revealed state secrets in the country ranked 5th in the World Press Freedom Index.

After their mission in Kosovo, RSF and other organisations warn that toxic rhetoric and smear campaigns against media, underfunding of public broadcaster and lack of transparency risk undermining the media freedom progress made in the country.

RSF calls on the Greek authorities to quickly carry out an independent investigation into the arbitrary surveillance of 13 journalists and calls on European institutions to impose a moratorium on the use of spyware.

At a meeting with Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister in Athens, RSF made specific recommendations for the legal reform and for the probe into the murder.

Attacks on the media have been one of the hallmarks of Jair Bolsonaro’s first term as Brazil’s president. Supported by an increasingly virulent base and backed by disinformation campaigns, he has undermined press freedom and the right to information...

The Egyptian government’s systematic persecution of journalists has not let up since it launched a “national strategy for human rights” one year ago, says Reporters Without Borders.

Popular TV news channel ARY News has been taken off the air in most Pakistani cities and its news director, Ammad Yousaf, has been arrested.