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Media war against Syria: 3 journalists killed by the FSA

30 June 2012

During an attack on a local television station on 27 June 2012, an armed opposition group gunned down three Syrian journalists and four guards.
Our colleagues Sami Abu Amin, Mohammad Zeid and Chammah Kohl worked for the Al-Ikhbariya satellite TV channel.
Voltaire Network wholeheartedly (...)

Honduras : UN concerned over assassination of journalists, but not RWB

11 May 2010

French NGO Reporters Without Borders did not include Honduras in its 2010 list of Worst Predators of Press Freedom, released on 3 May on the occasion of the World Press Freedom Day. The pro-US NGO maintains that no link between the murders and the political climate has been established and (...)

Who Judges the Judges?

Reporters Without Borders seems to have a geopolitical agenda

by F. William Engdahl

Frankfurt (Germany) | 5 May 2010

Voltaire Network has systematically exposed the financial ties between French-based NGO Reporters Without Borders and US Government/CIA front organizations. Officially devoted to "freedom of the press", RWB is best known for its smear campaigns against Washington’s political foes like Cuba (...)

Lies about Cuba

by Salim Lamrani

Paris (France) | 21 July 2009

A hidden camera report, which was given widespread coverage by western television networks, shows the Melia Cohíba Hotel management in Havana prohibiting internet acces to Cuban nationals and reserving it for the exclusive use of its customers. This report was exploited by Reporters Without (...)

Reporters Without Borders’ lies about Venezuela

by Salim Lamrani

Paris (France) | 26 June 2009

With the advent of a new U.S. Administration and the appointment of a new director, one would have expected Reporters Without Borders to desist from their propaganda campaign against Venezuela and Cuba. But nothing of the sort. Salim Lamrani relates the latest episode of this never ending war.

International Republican Institute Grants Uncovered

Reporters Without Borders and Washington’s Coups

by Diana Barahona , Jeb Sprague

Caracas (Venezuela) | 9 August 2006

British press baron Lord Northcliff said, "News is something that someone, somewhere wants to keep secret, everything else is advertising." If this is true, then U.S. government funding of Reporters Without Borders must be news, because the organization and its friends in Washington have gone (...)

Reporters without Borders Keeps silence about journalist tortured in Guantánamo

by Salim Lamrani

7 February 2006

The silence kept by the «freedom-of-the-press» Reporters without border (RSF) organization about Sudanese journalist Sami al Hajj raises many questions on the impartiality of that association headed by Robert Menard. RSF, which is always willing to stigmatize- usually arbitrarily- those (...)

The Lies of Reporters without Borders

by Salim Lamrani

Paris (France) | 9 September 2005

French NGO Reporters without borders, dedicated to the defense of press freedom, is today at the center of a controversy. To some people, it is an efficient vector for freedom in the world, but to others – and we are among those – it has evolved into a transmission cable for the State (...)