Reporters Without Borders (RSF) issues an annual report evaluating press freedom globally.This year’s index focused on 180 countries across the world.It found that journalism is totally bl
The Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs today announced a contribution of half-a-million US dollars (450,000 euros) in support of Reporters Without Borders’ (RSF) actions for journalism in Ukraine.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and Germany’s Giordano Bruno Foundation (GBS) call on the Saudi authorities to comply with the terms of the ten-year prison sentence they passed on Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, who should have been freed on completing the sentence on 28 February.
Four Yemeni journalists and an Iranian editor are under sentence death and await execution. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the use of the death penalty, an antiquated form of punishment, to threaten journalists in some parts of the world.
Predators of press freedom have seized on the notion of “fake news” to muzzle the media on the pretext of fighting false information. Nonetheless, many of them have taken recent statements by President Donald Trump as a means of justifying their repressive policies. This dangerous trend is a cause for concern to Reporters Without Borders (RSF). At a Washington news conference in February, Trump said: “We have to talk to find out what's going on, because the press, honestly, is out of control. The level of dishonesty is out of control.”