Arbitrary detention and proceedingsInternational laws and governanceIndependence and pluralismModels and good practicesNews 03.06.2022 RSF pays tribute to Belarusian Association of Journalists, UNESCO laureate RSF and 46 countries have paid tribute to the courage of the BAJ at a ceremony at UNESCO and have condemned the press freedom situation in Belarus. RSF has urged governments to do more to protect journalists and safeguard the right to information.
Arbitrary detention and proceedingsIndependence and pluralismNews 03.06.2022 Who will be next in Indian police persecution of Kashmir magazine’s journalists? The interim editor of The Kashmir Walla, an online magazine in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, has been summoned by this northern region’s counter-terrorism agency over an article published 11 years ago.
Independence and pluralismModels and good practicesNews 01.06.2022 Chinese foreign minister tolerates no reporters during Pacific island tour Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the total media blackout imposed on events during Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi’s ten-day tour of Pacific island countries.
International laws and governanceIndependence and pluralismNews 30.05.2022 RSF calls on WHO to open its events to Taiwanese journalists RSF urges the United Nations to stop its discriminatory practices against Taiwanese journalists, notably at the World Health Assembly.
Legal framework and justice systemIndependence and pluralismViolence against journalistsNews 25.05.2022 RSF condemns the Taliban’s attempt to cover Afghan women journalists’ faces Journalists’ faces have disappeared from Afghan TV since 22 May, as the Taliban ordered women television presenters to cover their faces while on air, and their male colleagues have been wearing masks in a “#FreeHerFace” solidarity campaign.
Arbitrary detention and proceedingsIndependence and pluralismNews 24.05.2022 Georgia : RSF seeks review of opposition TV chief’s conviction, jail sentence Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for a review of opposition TV channel director Nika Gvaramia’s unprecedented and probably politically motivated conviction for “abusing his position” at the TV channel he previously ran.
Legal framework and justice systemIndependence and pluralismViolence against journalistsNews 20.05.2022 Reporters caught between activists, police during Lebanon’s parliamentary elections Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the harassment and acts of violence by political activists and members of the security forces against journalists who covered Lebanon’s parliamentary elections.
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 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.