All posts tagged rsf
United States – Censored, prosecuted and on terror list, filmmaker denied First Amendment rights
Filmmaker and environmentalist Josh Fox is to appear in court on 15 February on a charge of “unlawful entry” following his arrest in Congress on 1 February, when he was prevented from filming a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment on the grounds that he lacked press credentials. Offering no resistance, Fox was handcuffed, led away and then released without bail. Fox is making a sequel to his acclaimed 2010 documentary film Gasland , in which he revealed the scale of the contamination of ground water resulting from the use of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” to extract natural gas from oil shale.
Belarus – Partner organization targeted by state TV hate propaganda
Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders condemns a state TV attempt to smear the Minsk-based Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ), a Reporters Without Borders
Russia – Office of opposition newspaper destroyed in firebomb attack
Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders strongly condemns the arson attack that ravaged the editorial offices of the weekly Vecherny Krasnokamsk in the Perm
United States – Reporters Without Borders to close its English-language site for 24 hours in protest against SOPA and…
Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - In an unprecedented move, Reporters Without Borders will shut down its English-language website for 24 hours from 8 a.m. EST tomorrow,
Iran – Death sentences and national Internet – escalating repression in Iran
Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - The Iranian government's constant repressive policies towards journalists and netizens are being steadily ratcheted up as part of a generalized increase
Russia – Vkontakte social network targeted by security services – RSF
Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Pavel Durov, the founder and director general of the Russian online social network Vkontakte, was summoned to the Saint Petersburg prosecutor's
Vietnam – Two citizen journalists jailed for illegally broadcasting to China -RSF
Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the sentencing today of two citizen radio journalists, Vu Duc Trung and his brother-in-law Le
United States – Absurd charges brought against reporters covering Occupy Wall Street movement – RSF
Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Sometimes they are arrested and then set free almost immediately. Sometimes they are arrested and, before being released, are charged with
Russia – Government eager to use Net surveillance software currently in test phase — RSF
Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders condemns plans by Roskomnadzor, Russia's federal supervisory agency for communications, information technology and mass media, to use search
China – Beijing court throws out appeal by jailed cyber-dissident Wang Lihong — RSF
Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders deplores the rejection on 20 October by a Beijing court of the appeal by cyber-dissident Wang Lihong (
Swedish journalists on trial in Ethiopia — Voice of America journalists already penalized — BBG Watch
BBG Watch -- As the trial of two Swedish journalists gets underway in Ethiopia, it is worth remembering that a Voice of America journalist David Arnold was dismissed
Ethiopia – Outcome already decided in trial of Swedish journalists? — RSF
Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders will pay close attention to the trial of Swedish journalists Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson , which is
United States – Reporters arrested, roughed up while covering Occupy Wall Street protests
Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - The often violent response to the Occupy Wall Street campaign that is growing in the United States and elsewhere is affecting
Tajikistan – Two journalists convicted but free men after trials
Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Two journalists were free men today at the end of separate trials in the northwestern city of Khujand which Reporters Without
Anonymous: They really should dissolve the BBG into one of the other organization...
Anonymous: We can write to our senators and to members of Congress. If they rece...
anonymous: If anything is clear, the BBG is now AT WAR WITH ITS OWN EMPLOYEES. ...
Anonymous2: What an appalling public diplomacy message from a U.S. federal agency ...
Anonymous: The laughter of Broadcasting Board of Governors members and other BBG ...