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This Reporters Without Borders opinion column was published on the Nouvel Observateur’s website Le Plus on 2 February. “Twitter Revolutions” – the term is widely used and has been applied to the Arab spring, not only on the virtual “walls” of Facebook but also on the real walls of Middle East capitals where messages of support and thanks to the social networking website have appeared. But could it already be becoming obsolete? Could Twitter lose the fund of sympathy it has built up among human (…)

The January 2011 revolution in Tunisia brought an end to Internet filtering and control of online content but old habits seem to be resurfacing and Reporters Without Borders urges the Tunisian courts not to take any decision that could lead to the restoration of filtering. A court order requiring the Tunisian Internet Agency (ATI) to block access to pornographic websites, upheld by a Tunis appeal court in August 2011, revived the debate about censorship. As the ATI had neither the (…)

Paris, 3 February 2012 – Reporters Without Borders, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), and the Iranian League for the Defence of Human Rights urge the international community to take a much firmer stance on respect for human rights in Iran by raising this essential issue in the talks currently under way with the country’s authorities. These three human rights organizations also urge the EU and international community to publicly condemn the unacceptable treatment that (…)

Reporters Without Borders roundly condemns radio journalist Farah Abadid Hildid’s abduction by the police yesterday and the threats and torture to which he was subjected during the 24 hours he was held. Hildid works for La Voix de Djibouti, a radio station that broadcasts on the shortwave from Europe and is now also available on the Internet. He described his ordeal to Reporters Without Borders by telephone two hours after his release: “I was in Djibouti City yesterday waiting for a (…)

Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned by the growing crackdown on independent journalists in Kazakhstan “The authorities, even more paranoid as a result of riots in Janaozen in December, are using the security argument as a pretext to step up their crackdown on the media,” the press freedom organization said. “After Stan TV and Vzgliad, Golos Respubliki is once again at the centre of the storm. Independent journalism as a whole is being targeted by a government unable to reassert (…)

Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned by the growing crackdown on independent journalists in Kazakhstan “The authorities, even more paranoid as a result of riots in Janaozen in December, are using the security argument as a pretext to step up their crackdown on the media,” the press freedom organization said. “After Stan TV and Vzglyad, Golos Respubliki is once again at the centre of the storm. Independent journalism as a whole is being targeted by a government unable to reassert (…)

Dear Hollywood,
You don’t need us to tell you that your position on anti-”piracy” laws has been unpopular recently. Last month’s historic protests, with millions of Americans registering their opposition, have made that point pretty clear. Instead,…

Mark Lyttle, a native-born U.S. citizen of Puerto Rican descent with mental disabilities, was deported after an immigration court hearing in 2008 at which he had no lawyer. Despite the fact that he spoke no Spanish and was known to have spent time …

Right now, representatives from nine countries including the United States are secretly meeting in a luxury hotel in Beverly Hills to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, a trade agreement with the potential to contain intellectual proper…

Last fall, the brutal, unprovoked beating of Zach, an openly gay student at Unioto High School in Chillicothe, Ohio, made national headlines when a video of the incident went viral online.
Today, the ACLU is releasing a new video that features Zac…