Reporters Without Borders criticises Tunisia

Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders has criticized the detention of a Tunisian journalist and a violent attack on another.

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Venezuela arrests suspect in attack on journalists

Reporters Without Borders has praised Venezuelan authorities for arresting a man suspected of participating in an attack on journalists.

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Media monitor: 7 photographers detained in Iran

Media monitor Reporters Without Borders says seven photographers and a cameraman have been detained in Iran, most of them over the past week.

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Lawyer defends jailed US reporter at Iran court

A lawyer for a jailed American journalist in Iran said Sunday he was optimistic that an appeals court will reduce her eight-year prison sentence for allegedly spying for the United States.

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Watchdog tallies pressure on activists at Olympics

Media monitor Reporters Without Borders said Friday at least 47 foreign pro-Tibetan activists have been expelled and 22 foreign journalists detained or manhandled by police or other authorities during the Beijing Olympics.

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Eritrea at Bottom of Media Freedom List

Eritrea, North Korea, and Turkmenistan are the world's worst violators of media freedom, according to a list released Tuesday by the advocacy group Reporters Without Borders.

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US internet firms accused of 'collusion' with China

US technology firms including Microsoft, Google and Yahoo have come under fire for allegedly helping China monitor suspected dissidents.

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The masses gathered today in Rome to protest for the freedom of the press! "Accusations of an anti-Berlusconi bias have spiked since Rai 2 twice invited to its studios a call girl who claims to have accepted money to spend the night with the prime minister.

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Amid a continuing climate of media harassment after the coup, a correspondent for Radio América was killed by an unidentified gunman on 3 July in northern Honduras, report Comité por la Libre Expresión (C-Libre), the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Reporters Wihout  …

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The Iranian protesters sneak their cell phones onto the streets and hit record, frantically trying to evade being caught or beaten.

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Reporters Without Borders condemns the erasure of Al Jazeera video footage by Palestinian Authority security officials yesterday on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Hebron. The erased footage dealt with a suspect's death in detention.

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With 33 Iranian journalists and bloggers in jail, Iran ranks alongside China as the world's biggest prison for journalists, the press rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said Sunday.

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The freedom represented by the Internet does not extend to all countries, says a new Reporters Without Borders report that faults a dozen nations for engaging in an "almost systematic repression of Internet users."

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A US-based Nigerian news blogger is being held without charge by Nigeria's secret service. Jonathan Elendu was taken into custody on Saturday when he arrived in the capital, Abuja, on a family visit.

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Reporters Without Borders today called on the Vietnamese judges due to try journalists Nguyen Viet Chien and Nguyen Van Hai starting on 14 October to dismiss the case and release them.

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Reporters Without Borders expressed outrage at a ten-year prison sentence handed down today by a court in Nukus, in the west of the country, to Solidzhon Abdurakhmanov, correspondent for several independent websites.

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Philippines: Not an Iraq But Ever Dangerous to Journalists

Manila, Philippines - Are journalists meant to be shut up and finally killed?

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A well-known Web site owner in one of Russia's most restive regions was shot to death after he was arrested by authorities on Sunday, according to Russian news reports.

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Press freedom must never be taken for granted.Journalist Magomed Yevloyev, one of the creators of the Ingush news website Ingushetiya.ru (http://ingushetiya.ru), was shot dead today while held by interior ministry officials in Nazran (in the southern Russian republic of Ingusheti …

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To believe that the Olympics in todays world is a mere sporting event is naive. Beijing was awarded the Olympics as a political gesture allowing them to prove themselves.

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William Pesek comments at Bloomberg: Will the Internet change China or will China change the Internet?

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Access to the wider internet is a problem for journalists at the Beijing Olympics - and for the Chinese people. But there is an initiative to bypass the barriers...

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Anyone who reads the Chinese-language press that carries the articles of the Xinhua News Agency will have a grossly distorted picture of what has been happening in Flushing. This should not be surprising.

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Can there be any doubt that the U.S. government is behind the attacks on China targeting the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing? The events that unfolded at the lighting of the Olympic flame March 24 in Greece were most revealing. A protest briefly disrupted the ceremonies.

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China has sharply criticized foreign reporters here over their coverage of the riots in Tibet, accusing them of biased reporting and preventing them from traveling to Tibet or neighboring provinces to report on the unrest.

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Reporters Without Borders today urged heads of state, heads of government and members of royal families to boycott the 8 August opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games because of the Chinese government's mounting human rights violations and the glaring lack of freedom in  …

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The arrest of an activist who spread information about politically touchy topics is cited as an example of a "cleansing campaign."

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Human rights advocates and Chinese dissidents say the arrest of an activist named Hu Jia is the most telling example of what they describe as a broadening crackdown on dissent.

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''Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the three-year prison sentence passed today by a court in Minsk on Alyaksandr Zdvizhkou, former deputy editor of the weekly Zhoda, for reprinting cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that first appeared in a Danish newspaper.

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Reporters Without Bordres is, naturally, "outraged" and called the arrest "unprecedented". What's funny is how people in the media think that they should be immune from the normal legal process. Imagine if you or I were to leak classified information to the public?

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PARIS - Eritrea has taken over from North Korea as the country in the world where press rights are least respected, the Paris-based campaigning group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said.

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Canada was ranked 18 on a list of 169, while the United States was 48, gaining ground slightly for the first time since Reporters Without Borders began compiling the list five years ago.

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