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Reporters Without Borders

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RSF demands Singapore’s minister K. Shanmugam withdraw ‘correction instructions’ on Asia Sentinel

RSF criticizes Singapore’s blocking of California-based Asia Sentinel, highlighting government’s increasing control over media and controversial use of the Prevention From Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act.

Over 100 global media heads and RSF demand release of Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai

More than 100 media leaders from around the world have joined Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in signing an unprecedented joint statement expressing support for detained Apple Daily founder and publisher Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong, and calling for his immediate release. Among the signatories are publishers, editors-in-chief, and senior editors from 42 countries, including two Nobel Peace Prize laureates. A laureate of RSF’s Press Freedom Prize, 75-year-old Jimmy Lai has worked over the past 25 years to uphold the values of freedom of speech and press through his independent media outlet Apple Daily. Detained since December 2020 in a maximum security jail and repeatedly refused bail, Lai is already serving concurrent sentences on charges of attending “unauthorised” pro-democracy protests and allegations of fraud. Most alarmingly, he now faces a possible life sentence under the draconian national security law, with his trial scheduled to start on 25 September.

73 women journalists will spend 8 March behind bars

On International Women’s Day, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate and unconditional release of imprisoned women journalists throughout the world, and sounds the alarm about the disappearance of women journalists from the Afghan media landscape.

Foreign journalists in China restricted and tracked in 2022: press group

BEIJING, CHINA — Foreign media in China endured strict COVID controls, widespread…

World Press Freedom Index: Censorship and disinformation virus hits Asia Pacific

Authoritarian regimes in Asia Pacific have used the COVID-19 pandemic to perfect…

Singapore falls to 160 in 2021 World Press Freedom index; situation classified as “very bad”

Singapore continues its descent at the World Press Freedom ranking in 2021,…