The first anniversary of the start of the peaceful uprising is on 14 February and is likely to be marked by big protests. The US has issued a travel warning to this effect and moved some embassy staff. Reporters Without Borders has just named Bahrain...

“We are outraged by what the police did, which was not only illegal but also directly threatened the safety of news agency and freelance photographers,” Reporters Without Borders said. “The police have ample resources for their enquiries, including the...

Without Borders wrote to Senegal's 14 presidential candidates on 17 February, the final day of its pre-election visit to Dakar, urging them to undertake to defend and promote freedom of information if elected on 26 February "In view of the diversity of...

Without Borders firmly condemns last week's almost simultaneous attacks on the offices of the conservative Turkish weekly Zaman in Germany and France by suspected supporters of Turkey's Kurdish armed separatists. “We are very worried by the growing...

Without Borders calls for the immediate release of Nasreddine Ben Saida, the publisher of the Arabic-language daily Attounissia, and the withdrawal of all charges against him, the newspaper's editor, Habib Guizani, and one of its journalists, Mohammed...

Putin’s Russia, the ruling clique’s political adversaries have been hounded by courts and police and have spent months or years in jail without trial, while oppositionist businessmen have been slapped with ruinous tax bills. On at least two dismal...