Legal framework and justice systemDisinformation and propagandaIndependence and pluralismModels and good practicesAdvocacy 20.05.2022 EU ministers urged by RSF and its partners to address a decade-long campaign to dismantle Hungary’s independent media RSF and other human rights NGOs ask the EU governments to raise threats to press freedom with their Hungarian counterparts at a key hearing on rule of law.
Legal framework and justice systemTechnological censorship and surveillanceDigital space and democracyNews 17.05.2022 Messaging services : Proposed EU regulation would open way to mass surveillance Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is alarmed by a European Union proposal for combatting child sexual abuse under which the content of instant messaging apps, including encrypted ones, would be subjected to constant scanning.
Legal framework and justice systemDisinformation and propagandaIndependence and pluralismNews 13.05.2022 Viktor Orbán’s regime continues to crush media pluralism in Hungary Tilos Rádió, an independent, Budapest-based community radio station, is about to be taken off the air following a sanction by the Hungary’s Media Council.
Violence against journalistsNews 13.05.2022 Chilean reporter dies from gunshot injury sustained during May Day march Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Chile’s new government to reinforce mechanisms for protecting journalists
Disinformation and propagandaNews 13.05.2022 World Press Freedom Index: Greek government spokesman responds to poor ranking with counterfactual claims RSF deplores the Greek government spokesman’s counterfactual claims in response to Greece’s ranking in RSF’s Press Freedom Index – 108th out of 180 countries worldwide – which is the lowest of any European country
Violence against journalistsNews 11.05.2022 Three more journalists murdered in less than a week in Mexico Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by the murders of three more reporters in less than a week in Mexico
Violence against journalistsNews 11.05.2022 Reporter beaten up by soldiers in Guinea Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for an immediate investigation into the case of a reporter who had to be hospitalised in Guinea after being beaten up by soldiers on 10 May.
Legal framework and justice systemArbitrary detention and proceedingsViolence against journalistsNews 11.05.2022 Afghanistan : Afghan journalist tried by military court, sentenced to one year in prison Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns an Afghan journalist’s trial by a military court and recent illegal and arbitrary arrests of others. The Taliban government has not kept its promise to apply the country’s press law.
Legal framework and justice systemNews 10.05.2022 Albania: RSF asks for effective investigations following the intimidation of journalists reporting on prosecutor’s vetting RSF and other NGOs ask the Albanian Commissioner for Personal Data Protection to shed light upon the private data breaches and intimidation of at least two journalists who investigated the vetting process of Tirana Chief Prosecutor Elizabeta Imeraj
Arbitrary detention and proceedingsIndependence and pluralismNews 06.05.2022 Ugandan reporter threatened over coverage of rain forest destruction Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is concerned about an increase in threats to journalists trying to cover illegal logging and deforestation in the Zoka rain forest, in northwestern Uganda’s Adjumani district.