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** The call to open Gaza and protect Palestinian journalists
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Two journalists were arrested ([link removed]) aboard the humanitarian ship Madleen, intercepted by the Israeli army in international waters: Omar Faiad, from Al Jazeera, was released ([link removed]) on 10 June, while Yanis Mhamdi, from the French outlet Blast, remains in detention. These arbitrary arrests took place in the context of the blockade on Gaza, where nearly 200 Palestinian journalists have been killed in 20 months. RSF has mobilised more than 200 media outlets and organisations worldwide to reiterate its call for ([link removed]) the opening of Gaza and the urgent protection of
Palestinian reporters. The NGO is also continuing its aid work on the ground by supporting journalism through local partners such as the Wattan Media Network ([link removed]) .


** DATA: 29 Ukrainian journalists detained by Russia
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Twenty-nine journalists are being targeted for their independent coverage of the Russian invasion, which refused to bow to Kremlin propaganda. Most of them were arrested in Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories. Who are these journalists ([link removed]) imprisoned for reporting the news?
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** You can help: your donations aid journalists at risk
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Through the work of its Assistance Office, RSF helps secure the safety of journalists under threat, provides financial and administrative support to news professionals in distress, and helps media outlets in emergency situations. RSF also develops training courses for journalists and newsrooms on physical, psychological and digital security. Your donations are what make this possible:
* with a donation of 50 euros (57 US dollars), you can buy an external battery for a journalist
* with a donation of 500 euros (570 US dollars), you can provide a journalist with security training
* With a donation of 1,000 euros (1,150 US dollars), you can equip a journalist with a bulletproof vest.

Your support is vital to ensuring we can carry out our aid work and all other RSF actions to protect journalists and outlets in danger.
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** NEWS BRIEFS
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** Protecting reliable news to help fight climate change
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In the past decade, over 200 journalists have been violently attacked while investigating environmental issues. At least 25 of them were killed. RSF — alongside UNESCO, the Pulitzer Center, Greenpeace, Climate Action Against Disinformation, and the Forum on Information and Democracy — has issued an urgent call ([link removed]) to governments worldwide to protect journalists investigating environmental scandals and their impact on communities.


** Honduras: murder of journalist Javier Antonio Hércules Salinas
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He was under state protection, yet Javier Antonio Hércules Salinas, a journalist for the local channel A Todo Noticias, was fatally shot ([link removed]) in the city of Santa Rosa de Copán. This murder, along with those of journalist Luis Augusto Carneiro da Costa on 27 May in Brazil ([link removed]) and journalist José Carlos González Herrera on 15 May in Mexico ([link removed]) , exposes the flaws ([link removed]) in the measures to protect
journalists in Latin America.


** United States: police violence in Los Angeles
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At least 35 journalists ([link removed]) have been attacked while covering the protests that began in Los Angeles on 6 June in response to federal raids on immigrant workplaces. Most of them are victims of police violence.



** Guinea: Where is journalist Marouane Habib Camara?
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It has been six months since theviolent abduction ([link removed]) of Habib Marouane Camara – the journalist for the news site Le Révélateur 224 abducted on 3 December 2024 – and his colleagues, family, and the wider journalism community still have no news of him. Mobilised by RSF, more than 100 African journalists and press freedom organisations have joined forces to urge the Guinean authorities to shed light on the journalist's fate.


** French news media targeted by AI-powered identity theft
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The use of generative AI to foster disinformation ([link removed]) is a serious problem that is not properly mitigated by current technical and legal barriers. For example, French media outlet Radio France Internationale (RFI) recently fell victim to identity theft in a piece of fake online content about the presidential election in Cameroon. A few weeks earlier, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a fake radio news programme used a deepfake of the voices of RFI journalist Arthur Ponchelet and France 24 journalist Aurélie Bazzara.


** Good news of the week
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The RSF website is now available ([link removed]) in Mandarin! As Beijing ramps up its crackdown on journalism, this new translation of the site will enable more than a billion Chinese speakers around the world to access reliable information on the state of press freedom.


** Video: Wu'er Kaixi, a leader of the 1989 student movement in China, speaks out
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“They hope the most that we lose hope.” Thirty-six years after the bloody crackdown in Tiananmen Square, RSF Emeritus Council member Uerkesh Davlet, known by his Chinese name Wu’er Kaixi, continues to denounce ([link removed]) the terror imposed on journalists by the Chinese regime. “They are afraid that we are not afraid of them.”
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There is full censorship in Russia, and under a dictatorship it is very difficult to spread information. We try to do our best on YouTube but the Kremlin often tries to block it, and it is very important to us to spread visibility. [...] I am especially grateful as tomorrow is my husband’s birthday. He was a great man. It is important to keep his legacy, and I am sure he would be very happy that new people are receiving information about the Kremlin regime, corruption, war, and everything that’s going on in Russia right now.

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Yulia Navalnaya, freedom and democracy activist and widow of murdered Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, during the announcement made on 3 June at the RSF headquarters in Paris of the launch ([link removed]) of a new television channel, Future of Russia, broadcast via the RSF Svoboda ([link removed]) satellite package.


** Highlight
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RSF is turning 40!

To mark this anniversary, the NGO is launching a world tour of the exhibition “Shooting the World of Tomorrow”. A visual manifesto, the exhibition illustrates the complexity of contemporary conflicts and the courage of those who face them. The perspectives of the exhibit’s 40 different photographers remind us of the importance of independent journalism in covering three key issues: the environment, exile and crises.
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