MIL-OSI NGOs: Doxing attack against media: Germany hit by global trend
Source: Reporters Without Borders – DATA THEFT REVEALS INFORMATION ON DOZENS OF JOURNALISTS On Friday, January 4th, it came to light that links to the private data of politicians, satirists, actors and journalists had been published daily on the Twitter account @_0rbit since the beginning of December as a kind of advent calendar. But it […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: Liberia: RSF decries attack on Monrovia radio station
Source: Reporters Without Borders – Roots FM is owned by Henry Costa, an outspoken critic of President George Weah in the morning talk-show he hosts, The Costa Show, which is one of Liberia’s most popular radio programmes. According to the information obtained by RSF, the gunmen arrived at around 3 a.m., tied up the personnel […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: Facebook’s oversight board is an important first step, but questions abound
Source: Reporters Without Borders – “We feel this is an important first step, however, many essential questions remain. Much about the mechanics of this body needs to be specified. We need guarantees of real independence, as well as decision-making that conforms to international legal standards for freedom of speech,” said RSF San Francisco office director Sabine Dolan. […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: UN asked to intercede in arrests of foreign journalists, censorship in Venezuela
Source: Reporters Without Borders – The foreign journalists, who had come to cover anti-Maduro demonstrations in Venezuela’s largest cities, were arrested by the police, the General Directorate for Military Counter-Intelligence (DGCIM), the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (SEBIN) and the presidential guard. The censorship of independent and international media is becoming more and more blatant and disturbing […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: Prosecution in Thailand over shortwave broadcasts to China
Source: Reporters Without Borders – Chiang, who is due to appear in court on 12 February, was arrested at his office in Bangkok on 23 November on a charge of violating Thailand’s broadcasting laws and was held for two days before being released on bail. His crime is to have helped rent premises in the […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: Knife attack on well-known Cameroonian investigative reporter
Source: Reporters Without Borders – Chief investigative reporter at CameroonWeb, the country’s most popular news website, Paul Chouta was beaten and stabbed by three unidentified individuals as he left his Yaoundé home, sustaining injuries to the head, hands and feet. “He survived thanks to the intervention of neighbours, who rushed him to hospital for emergency […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: US – Online trolls harass journalists affected by HuffPost and Buzzfeed layoffs
Source: Reporters Without Borders – Online trolls coordinated on 4chan, a messaging forum popular among the far-right, to harass journalists who had announced on social media that they or their editors lost their jobs as a result of the mass layoffs at digital media organizations HuffPost and BuzzFeed that began on January 24 and 25. […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: UK NGOs concerned over press freedom implications of Crime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill
Source: Reporters Without Borders – The Crime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill is a major shake-up of how authorities access the data of people in the UK and overseas, in the context of investigating and prosecuting serious crime. We welcome better measures to tackle serious crime, but bad legislation will unnecessarily erode privacy, freedom of expression, […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: European Union urged to provide better protection for whistleblowers
Source: Reporters Without Borders – European protection for whistleblowers is finally close to seeing the light of day but could easily prove to be insufficient although the importance of their role in revealing public interest information has repeatedly been confirmed in recent years in such cases as the Panama Papers, LuxLeaks and France’s Mediator scandal. […]
Read More →MIL-OSI NGOs: RSF calls for release of two Cameroonian newspaper reporters
Source: Reporters Without Borders – Théodore Tchopa and David Eyengue, who work for one of the leading Cameroonian dailies Le Jour and are members of the National Union of Cameroonian Journalists (SNJC), were arrested at a meeting in the home of a close supporter of Maurice Kamto, runner-up to President Paul Biya in last October’s […]
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