Reporters Without Borders

...dissidents and other activists. Last year, Reporters Without Borders ranked Myanmar as the world's sixth worst violator of media freedom, after Eritrea, North Korea, Turkmenistan, Iran, and Cuba. Despite the hazards, many local...

In this article: Burma, Kenji Nagai, Yangon, Bangkok, Thailand, Buddhist, Committee to Protect Journalists, and United Nations

...out of favor with the government. Reporters Without Borders' (RSF) Press Freedom Index placed Burma 164th out of 168 countries last year, just ahead of Cuba, Eritrea, Turkmenistan, and North Korea. This year, the country might do even...

In this article: Burma, Saw Wai, BBC, Valentine's Day, North Korea, Rangoon, Cuba, and Eritrea

Reporters Without Borders called Turkmenistan, along with North Korea, an "unchanging hell" in its latest global press freedom report, saying its population "is cut off from the world and is subjected to propaganda worthy of a bygone age."

In this article: Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmenistan, Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, Democratic Party, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and Human Rights Watch

...media. In its 2007 World Press Freedom Index, Reporters Without Borders ranked the country 166th of 169 countries, worse than authoritarian regimes such as Burma and Cuba, and only better than Turkmenistan, North Korea, and Eritrea. And...

In this article: Twitter, Iran, Facebook, Cadre, Global Voices Online, Open Society Institute, Harvard University, and YouTube

...held in the Central Asian country. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner says the activists from media watchdog Reporters Without Borders briefly entered the embassy before leaving peacefully. The activists were calling attention to...

In this article: Paris, Turkmenistan, Bernard Kouchner, and Ogulsapar Muradova

...efforts to scramble or jam online content. It's not a pretty picture. Twelve of the countries called out by Reporters Without Borders -- Burma, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia,...

In this article: Internet censorship, Vietnam, South Korea, Australia, All rights reserved, and Trademark

...end of September. The group noted its concern over the declining rankings of some Western democracies as well as the persistence of other countries in imposing harsh punishments on media that criticize political leaders. "Unfortunately...

In this article: United States, North Korea, China, Democracy, Islam, Muhammad, and Anna Politkovskaya

...and Vietnam). In conjunction with the protest, Reporters Without Borders will release a new version of its Handbook for Cyber-dissidents, and an update to the organization's list of "Internet enemies." Though it wasn't made clear...

In this article: Josh Wolf, CNET News, Windows Vista, Microsoft, Vietnam, Burma, Egypt, and China

...back their plans to mandate more filtering, while Vietnam added an additional layer. These three are just the beginning, though; Reporters Without Borders also points the finger at Burma, Cuba, North Korea, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia,...

In this article: E mail, US, Internet censorship, Iran, China, China Daily, Hotmail, and Gmail