Press Freedom
CPJ Updates
- New Guatemalan president must work hard to improve press freedom
- Governments around the world crack down on journalists covering COVID-19
- Philippines COVID-19 state of emergency includes prison time for spreading ‘false news’
- Trust deficit: About This Report
- Trust deficit: Guatemala's new president must overcome skepticism to improve press freedom
- Trust deficit: 'The goal was to silence me'
- Journalist Adnan Rashidi tortured, robbed in Iraqi Kurdistan
- Iraqi security forces seize journalist’s belongings for allegedly violating COVID-19 curfew
- Egypt expels Guardian reporter Ruth Michaelson over COVID-19 coverage
Reporter Without Borders
- Journalist threatened for exposing flaws in handling of coronavirus crisis
- Indian newspaper accused of “fake news” about lockdown’s impact on poor
- Coronavirus: RSF concerned for freedom of the press as Japan declares state of emergency
- Philippine journalist forced to apologize for criticizing coronavirus “inaction”
- Coronavirus threat to journalists in overcrowded Saudi prisons
- Covid-19 in Africa: RSF joins a coalition of civil society organizations to demand the release of imprisoned journalists on the continent
- Iraqi regulator wants to suspend Reuters over coronavirus reporting
- Egypt blocks online “fake news” about coronavirus
United States
RSF Opposes Possible Extradition of Julian Assange
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is warning that the Trump administration’s use of the Espionage Act to extradite Julian Assange to the U.S. could lead to a sentence up to 175 years in prison for providing information to journalists.
“This would set a dangerous precedent for all journalists who publish classified information that is of public interest,” an RSF release states.
The organization has launched a petition calling for the United Kingdom not to comply with the United States’ request to extradite Julian Assange. They have asked supporters to share their appeal using the #FreeAssange hashtag.