Media advocacy watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says it is unblocking access to nine news websites in an effort to combat online censorship by governments that violate human rights. RSF said the move, dubbed Operation Collateral Freedom and launched on March 12 to mark the World Day Against Cyber-Censorship, will make the sites available […]
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Reporters Without Borders: Acid attacks on women – new grounds for harassing journalists
Embarrassed by a public outcry about a spate of acid attacks on women in the central city of Isfahan since the start of October, the Iranian authorities have been threatening news media and arresting journalists and netizens. After at least seven women had been the victims of acid attacks, scores of demonstrators gathered outside […]
Reporters Without Borders: Lives of detained Sufi journalists in the balance
They began a hunger strike on 31 August in protest against prison conditionsReporters Without Borders is very worried about the many journalists and netizens who continue to be detained despite suffering serious ailments, and condemns the lack of adequate medical treatment in the prisons where they are held. There is currently a […]
Reporters Without Borders Names ‘Enemies Of Internet’
The media freedom organization Reporters Without Borders has released its annual list of ” Enemies of the Internet.” The report was issued on March 12 to coincide with World Day Against Cyber Censorship and seeks to draw attention to “government units and agencies that implement online censorship and surveillance.” Antoine Hery, the head […]
Press Freedom Violations Recounted in Real Time January 2014
23.01.2014- Newspaper owners held arbitrarily since 2011 Mehdi Karoubi, a 77-year-old newspaper owner who has been under house arrest since February 2011, was taken to an unknown place of detention of 17 January after undergoing two back operations – a laminectomy and discectomy – at Tehran’s Arad Hospital. A dissident theologian, former parliamentary speaker […]
RSF Denounces Censorship In Name Of Religion
In a new report, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) documents censorship that is being exercised in the name of religion and God. In the report released on December 13, the Paris-based group says news and content providers in “far too many countries” constantly face what it calls this “very special and formidable form of censorship.” […]
Reporters Without Borders: Exile journalists threatened, pressured and defamed from inside Iran
Reporters Without Borders condemns Iran’s threats and defamatory attacks on Iranian journalists living in exile, including UK-based freelancer Masih Alinejad and US-based Arash Sigarchi of Voice of America. The intelligence ministry and Revolutionary Guards are using the government-controlled national radio and TV broadcaster to orchestrate these harassement campaigns from Tehran. “Efforts are being made […]
Inhuman treatment of journalists, more efforts to cover up Beheshti case
Reporters Without Borders reiterates its deep concern about the conditions in which many Iranian journalists are being held. Mehdi Karoubi, 76, a dissident theologian, former parliamentary speaker and owner of the closed newspaper Etemad Melli, was transferred to an unknown destination on 31 July after an angioplasty operation in a Tehran hospital. It was […]
Reporters Without Borders Condemns Heavy Prison Sentences Against Majzooban Noor bloggers
Press freedom violations recounted in real time (from 1st January 2013) 16.07.2013-Total of 56 years in prison for seven netizens Reporters Without Borders roundly condemns the harsh sentences ranging from seven and a half to 10 years in prison that a Tehran revolutionary court passed on seven contributors to the Sufi website https://majzooban.org/en ( on 13 […]