International laws and governance

Four years after the brutal assasination of Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi, none of the 26 men implicated in his murder have faced any real punishment. The man accused of leading them, Saud al-Qahtani, never even stood trial.

On the occasion of the second Summit for Information and Democracy organized on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the United States announced that it would join the initiative launched by RSF in 2018.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of Htet Htet Khine, a Burmese freelance journalist and former BBC Media Action presenter who was sentenced to three years in prison with hard labour.

The proposed European Media Freedom Act (EMFA) that was unveiled today represents an important step forward for media freedom and for the preservation of democracy and the rule of law throughout the European Union.

Pham Doan Trang refused to plead guilty to “anti-state propaganda.” RSF calls on Vietnam’s commercial partners to use their trade agreements with Hanoi to press for the release of this journalist, who was awarded the RSF Press Freedom Prize in 2019.

Reporters sans frontières (RSF) fustige ces méthodes autoritaires dans un pays où les attaques et les violences contre la presse continuent pourtant de se multiplier

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns Japanese documentary filmmaker Toru Kubota’s arrest shortly after covering an anti-government protest in Myanmar on 30 July and calls for his immediate release.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has joined nine other human rights organisations in calling on the government of the Maldives to repeal or amend a provision forcing journalists to reveal their sources.

For several months, Twitter and the Indian government have been engaged in a tussle involving two misconceptions about the online flow of information that ended up in court last week.