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Launched on World Press Freedom Day, BETC s innovative prints raise awareness for journalist Maria Ressa who faces lifetime imprisonment in the Philippines
On World Press Freedom Day 2021, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the #HoldTheLine coalition have launched an innovative campaign of solidarity with journalist Maria Ressa, who faces a possible lifetime in prison in the Philippines. A new website features hundreds of videos from prominent supporters around the world - with a call for public contributions - that will stream on a continuous loop until all charges are dropped against Ressa and the media outlet Rappler.
On World Press Freedom Day 2021, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the #HoldTheLine coalition have launched an innovative campaign of solidarity with journalist Maria Ressa, who faces a possible lifetime in prison in the Philippines. A new website (www.holdthelineformariaressa.com) features hundreds of videos from prominent supporters around the world - with a call for public contributions - that will stream on a continuous loop until all charges are dropped against Ressa and the media outlet Rappler.
In an unprecedented coordinated campaign action launched by RSF and the #HoldTheLine coalition, hundreds of supporters have submitted videos in support of Maria Ressa, the founder and CEO of online media outlet Rappler, whose courageous journalism and stand for press freedom in the Philippines earned her a spot as
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The concept of press freedom is a universal ideal that governs the rights of journalists and other people in the media to carry out their duties without fear of censorship and persecution.
While that s a good thing, it s not necessarily implemented equally throughout the world. Some have it better, some have it worse. And some just don t have it at all.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF), an international NGO with consultative status at the United Nations, has released their 2021 World Press Freedom Index, an annual ranking of press freedom spanning 180 countries across the world.
Named
in honor of the late
Washington Post columnist, the
Jamal
Khashoggi Press Freedom Accountability Act seeks to
build upon a law
that was signed by former President Barack Obama in 2010 in
honor of another slain journalist, Daniel
Pearl. It aims to strengthen the U.S.’ commitment to
hold those who target journalists with violence or
persecution accountable. RSF has repeatedly called for
transparency and accountability in Khashoggi’s murder at
the Saudi Embassy in Istanbul in 2018, and supports every
effort to bring those responsible for his death to justice.
The bill was introduced by Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and