Tag: Reporters

Advice for foreign reporters trying to cover censored elections

  Reporters Without Borders is a non-profit organization defending freedom of press. The following guidelines have been issued by Reports Without Borders to help journalists who are trying to cover the presidential elections in Iran. The election will be held on Friday, June 14, 2013. If no presidential candidate receives at least 50 percent of […]

Open letter from Reporters Without Borders to Ban-Ki-moon on the occasion of his visit to Iran

  Ban Ki-moon Secretary-General United Nations New York United States Paris, 29 August 2012 Dear Secretary-General, As you prepare to attend the summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Tehran on 30 and 31 August, Reporters Without Borders wishes to draw your attention to the woeful state of freedom of information in Iran, and to the […]

Iran: Stop holding reporters’ relatives hostage

  The Iranian government has been intimidating and detaining relatives and friends of foreign-based Persian-language journalists to obtain information or silence them, Human Rights Watch said today. A family member of a BBC reporter whom Iranian authorities arbitrarily detained and held as a hostage for close to two weeks is one of the latest victims […]