Legal framework and justice system

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the Syrian information ministry’s decision to revoke the accreditation of two local journalists working for the BBC

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of two journalists who were pardoned by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in February, after being jailed in 2022, and have just been arrested again.

As EU negotiations on a directive aimed at combating SLAPPs enter the final stretch, RSF calls on the Council of the EU to accept the procedural safeguards needed to protect journalists from abusive lawsuits designed to intimidate and silence them

RSF condemns the appalling physical and psychological mistreatment to which he and other detained journalists are often subjected by the Russian prison authorities and calls for their immediate release.

À l’occasion du 10e anniversaire de l’arrivée au pouvoir du président Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, Reporters sans frontières (RSF) dévoile les visages et les profils de 16 des 18 journalistes actuellement incarcérés et demande leur libération immédiate.

As President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi prepares to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the military coup that brought him to power, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) looks back at the relentless methods he has used to reshape the Egyptian media landscape.

With media freedom and journalists groups, Reporters without Borders (RSF) call on the EU to prioritise media freedom reforms and human rights in relations with Turkey

RSF calls on EU member states and MEPs to reverse a provision in the version of the EMFA adopted by the Council of the EU on 20 June that would allow broad use of national security grounds to limit journalists’ protection from surveillance.

The freedom of information suffers from significant shortcomings in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania despite their high ranking in the World Press Freedom Index.