FNA - The Iranian embassy in Britain dismissed allegations that Ambassador to London Hamid Ba'eidinejad has threatened the journalists. "The allegations against the ambassador of Iran to the UK issued by the Reporters Sans Frontiere (RSF) and carried by some Western media are categorically false and rejected. Ambassador Ba'eidinejad has never threatened ...

Euronews - The murder of the Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi in a year when more than half of all journalists who were killed around the world were targeted deliberately reflects a hatred of the media in many areas of society, a free-press advocacy group said Tuesday. At least 63 professional journalists were killed doing their jobs in 2018, a ...

Tehran, Dec 29, IRNA - A total of 110 journalists were killed around the world in 2015, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Tuesday, warning that more were being deliberately targeted for their work in supposedly peaceful countries. Sixty-seven journalists were killed in the line of duty this year, and another 43 died in circumstances that were ...

[caption id="attachment_137067" align="alignright" width="141"] The video grab purportedly shows an ISIL militant preparing to behead American journalist James Foley.[/caption] Reporters Without Borders says a total of 66 journalists lost their lives in connection to their work so far this year, warning about the rise of what it calls barbaric attacks ...

The Paris-based media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says China, Iran, Syria, Bahrain, and Vietnam are the world's worst offenders in terms of Internet censorship and spying. RSF said in anew reportthat regimes clamping down on dissent should not have easy access to Internet surveillance tools. The report, "Enemies of the Internet," also ...