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Algeria: journalist Ihsane El Kadi is free after a Presidential pardon

Ihsane El Kadi has finally regained his freedom after 22 months in prison. The director of Radio M and Maghreb Émergent was pardoned by President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Thursday 30 October. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) welcomes this measure, which it

Media sustainability Violence against journalists News

24.09.2024

The Sahel: RSF and over 500 community radio stations call for the protection of local journalism

Around twenty community radio station managers – all members of the TV and radio regulatory agency Union des radios et télévisions libres du Mali (URTEL) – gathered in Bamako on 24 September.

Legal framework and justice system Digital space and democracy News

09.08.2024

Philippines: RSF and the Hold The Line Coalition welcome the restoration of Rappler’s licence

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Hold the Line Coalition (HTL) welcome the recent decision by the Philippine Court of Appeal to overturn the order to close Rappler, an online news website founded by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa.

Arbitrary detention and proceedings Violence against journalists News

03.07.2024

Ukrainian journalist Dmytro Gordon unjustly sentenced to 14 years in Russian prison

Dmytro Gordon — whose YouTube news channel targeting Russian speakers is available from RSF’s Svoboda satellite package, which brings reliable news to populations barraged by propaganda and censorship — has been sentenced in Russia.

Technological censorship and surveillance Digital space and democracy Independence and pluralism Media sustainability News

27.06.2024

Guinea: RSF stages protest against media censorship in Dakar

After demonstrating in support of journalists in Conakry in March, the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Sub-Saharan Africa desk protested in Dakar on 27 June, calling on Mamadi Doumbouya’s government to end their completely repressive policies.

Arbitrary detention and proceedings News

21.06.2024

Hong Kong: RSF appalled by the prolonged detention of Apple Daily staff three years after media shutdown

Since the forced closure of Hong Kong’s largest Chinese-language independent newspaper Apple Daily three years ago, seven of its staff members, including the founder Jimmy Lai, are still detained and awaiting verdicts on spurious national security charges

Violence against journalists News

18.06.2024

War in the DRC: community radio stations taken hostage, journalists threatened in North Kivu

In the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which is in the throes of armed conflict, members of the national army have taken over the premises of two community radio stations and set up military positions there within a week.

Legal framework and justice system Technological censorship and surveillance Digital space and democracy Independence and pluralism Media sustainability Violence against journalists News

18.06.2024

RSF calls on ECOWAS to react to media shutdowns in Guinea

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the Guinean government’s illegal decision to strip six privately-owned independent broadcasters – four radio stations and two TV channels – of their operating licences, despite earlier pledges. The ECOWAS must...

Arbitrary detention and proceedings Independence and pluralism Violence against journalists News

29.03.2024

Toplum TV – latest victim of Azerbaijan’s persecution of journalists

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the arrests of five more journalists in Azerbaijan on trumped-up charges of “foreign currency smuggling,” on which they face up to eight years in prison.

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