Tag: Reporters Without Borders
Media Literacy Index: Bulgaria is the least able to resist fake news
Bulgaria is the country in the European Union most unable to withstand the negative effects of fake news and most vulnerable in the fight against it. This shows the Media Literacy Index for 2022, prepared in the framework of the European Policy Initiative (EuPI) of the Open Society Institute – Sofia, and assesses the potential […]
Overview: A year of Taliban rule in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON – A year after the Taliban’s return to power, the Islamist group’s efforts to manage an economy already battered by drought, the Covid-19 pandemic and waning confidence in the government it toppled have largely proved fruitless. In Afghanistan’s last fiscal year before the collapse of Ashraf Ghani’s Western-backed coalition government – 2020-21 – 75% […]
The President of Mexico promises to demolish the Statue of Liberty
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says he will press the US to drop the charges against Julian Assange Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says the symbol of American freedom could lose its significance if Washington refuses to drop charges against Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange, who risks 175 years in prison. “If they take him to […]
Misinformation, censorship, trigger the global retreat of press freedom
Washington – Following the Kremlin’s example, a global increase in disinformation and propaganda has a catastrophic effect on independent news around the world, a new report shows. In its 2022 The World Press Freedom Index was released on TuesdayThe Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has contributed enormously to the […]
Spreading fake news incites divisions, global tensions: RSF
Unregulated online content has spread disinformation and propaganda that has widened political divisions around the world, aroused international tensions and even contributed to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to an annual report by Reporters Without Borders. More commonly known by its French acronym RSF, Reporters Without Borders warned that democratic societies are becoming increasingly fragmented […]
Finland dropped to fifth in the World Press Freedom Index
Finland fell from second to fifth in the annual World Press index published by Reporters Without Borders on Tuesday. Fifth place is Finland’s weakest ranking since 2007, and the Nordic countries have been consistently second in the index since 2019. The best scores on freedom of the press were given to Norway, followed by Denmark, […]
Bulgaria climbs 21 places in the freedom of expression index
Bulgaria climbs 21 places in Reporters Without Borders annually and is now 91st instead of 112, as it was last year, said the Association of European Journalists. The index, which measures freedom of expression in 180 countries each year, shows a doubling of polarization combined with information chaos around the world, Reporters Without Borders states. […]
Australia says it will not challenge Assange’s extradition
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Australia will not challenge the extradition of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the United States and has confidence in the British legal system, a senior government official said on Thursday. – Other media news – A British court on Wednesday issued a formal decision to extradite the Australian citizen to the United […]
Bangladeshi court grants bail to exile journalist sister
DHAKA, BANGLADESH – The sister of an American-speaking Bangladeshi journalist has been granted bail by a Bangladeshi court after 160 days in custody and, according to her lawyer, may be released sometime next week. Nusrat Shahrin Raka, 38, sister of journalist Kanak Sarwar, was arrested on October 5 in Dhaka by Bangladesh’s special police force […]
Trial Of Iranian Charged With War Crimes Begins In Sweden
A former Iranian prosecutor accused of involvement in the 1988 execution of thousands of political dissidents has gone on trial in Sweden on August 10 in a landmark case likely to stoke tensions in the Islamic republic. Hamid Nouri, 60, appeared in Stockholm District Court on August 10 charged with ‘intentionally taking the life of […]
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has been charged with terrorist offenses
Reporters Without Borders reports Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on terrorist crimes in Lithuania. The reason is the hijacking on Sunday that led to the arrest of journalist and regime critic Raman Pratasevich. “He has used this as a means in his fight to scare the public into silence,” says Erik Halkjaer, chairman of Reporters Without […]
Independent Hungarian news site Telex receives press freedom award
The Hungarian reader-financed news site telex.hu receives Reporters Without Borders’ Freedom of the Press Award 2021. Telex was started last year by journalists who resigned from Hungary’s largest online newspaper Index. The editor-in-chief of Index had then been fired by a new owner with ties to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Hungary finished second last […]
Poorer press freedom during the pandemic
The situation of press freedom in the world has deteriorated during the pandemic. Only twelve countries out of 180 in Reporters Without Borders’ press freedom index are classified as free. Among the blacklisted countries at the bottom, the corona pandemic has been denied by leaders or banned from reporting on in the media.
Reporters Without Borders is concerned about the security of journalists in the United States
Reporters Without Borders is concerned about the safety of journalists ahead of the inauguration of Joe Biden as President of the United States on January 20. “We have seen during the past year that attacks on journalists have increased dramatically,” says Erik Halkjaer, who is chairman of Reporters Without Borders Sweden. – We had hoped […]
Investigation closed – “A disappointment”
Prosecutor Karolina Wieslander will not launch a preliminary investigation into suspected crimes against humanity against Swedish-Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak, who has been detained in Eritrea since 2001. She believes that it is not possible to investigate the suspicions on the spot. Reporters Without Borders reported the crimes, and Björn Tunbäck at the organization thinks today’s […]
Reporters Without Borders welcomes the news of Assange
The British court’s ruling that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange cannot be extradited to the United States for health reasons is welcomed by Reporters Without Borders. “It is serious, of course, if he is ill and feeling bad, but he is not free now. If an appeal process arises, he must remain, which further hinders the […]
Fewer journalists killed in 2020
Fifty journalists were killed because of their work around the world in 2020, according to a compilation by the organization Reporters Without Borders. That is less than what was killed per year in the last twenty years. But an increasing proportion were killed in countries that are not at war, says Erik Halkjaer, who is […]
New Zealand Report Card 2020: do well but may try harder
A year ago, who could have even imagined that 2020 would be as it did? A pandemic, closed borders, lockdown, economic crisis, a delayed election … but here we are at the end of a year like no other. So if New Zealand were to receive a report card for its COVID-19 performance, measured against […]
Media intolerance increased in Pakistan
Brussels [Belgium], October 21 (ANI): Journalists and the media are a priority target for Pakistan’s military and intelligence services to subject to freedom of expression, the EU Chronicle reported, adding that such intolerance of independent journalism has increased dramatically since July 2018 when Imran Khan became Prime Minister. In a report, the EU Chronicle said […]
Long history of forced disappearances in Balochistan
By Riaz Baloch Balochistan [Pakistan], 30 August (ANI): There is a long history of forced disappearances in occupied Balochistan, Pakistan. While thousands of Balochs have been abducted and disappeared since its illegal occupation, hundreds more have been eliminated in line with Pakistan’s “kill and dump” policy. Thousands are still unknown. Due to the silence and […]
