Reporters Without Borders
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Reporters Without Borders (RWB), or Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF), is a France-based international non-profit, non-governmental organization that promotes and defends freedom of information and freedom of the press. The organization has consultant status at the United Nations.
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Predators of Press Freedom
Starting in 2001 Reporters Without Borders has published its annual Predators of Press Freedom list which highlights what it feels are the worst violators of press freedom.
In 2016, RWB named 34 leaders or groups as Predators of Freedom of Information:
- Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, President of Egypt
- Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus
- Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran
- Al-Shabaab, armed Islamist militia, Somalia
- Ansarullah Bangla Team, Islamic extremist organization
- Bashar Al-Assad, President of Syria
- Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, President of Turkmenistan
- Hamad Ben Aissa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain
- The Houthis, (added 2016), Zaidi Shia-led movement
- Ilham Aliev, President of Azerbaijan
- Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Salafi jihadist militant group
- Issaias Afeworki, President of Eritrea
- Joseph Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Kim Jong-un, Supreme leader, First Chairman of the National Defence Commission, and First Secretary of the Workers' Party, North Korea
- Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore
- Los Zetas, Mexican drug cartel
- Nguyen Phu Trong, Communist Party general secretary, Vietnam
- Nicolás Maduro, President of Venezuela (added 2016)
- Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan
- Omar Al-Bashir, President of Sudan
- Pakistani government intelligence agencies
- Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda
- Pierre Nkurunziza, President of Burundi
- Prayut Chan-o-cha, Prime Minister of Thailand
- Ramzan Kadyrov, Head of Chechnya
- Raúl Castro, President of the Council of State, Cuba
- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of Turkey (added 2016)
- Robert Mugabe, President, Zimbabwe
- Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, King of Saudi Arabia (added 2016)
- Salva Kiir, President of South Sudan
- The Taliban, Islamic fundamentalist movement
- Teodoro Obiang Nguema, President of Equatorial Guinea
- Vladimir Putin, President of Russian Federation
- Xi Jinping, President and General Secretary of the Communist Party, China
- Yahya Jammeh, President of Gambia
Seven leaders and ten groups were dropped from the list of predators in 2016:
- Abdallah Ibn Al-Saud, King, Saudi Arabia
- Baloch armed groups, Pakistan
- "Black Eagles", Paramilitary group, Colombia
- Boko Haram, Islamist group, Nigeria
- Choummaly Sayasone, President, Laos
- Islam Karimov, President, Uzbekistan
- Israel Defense Forces, Israel
- Italian organized crime
- Jabhat Al-Nosra, Syrian jihadi group
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President, Iran
- Maldives' Islamists
- Miguel Facussé Barjum, Businessman and landowner, Honduras
- Mswati III, King, Swaziland
- Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt
- Philippine private militias
- Rajapaksa Brothers: Mahinda, President and Defence Minister and Gotabaya, Defence Secretary, Sri Lanka
- Vasif Talibov, Supreme Council President, Azerbaijan
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See also
- Avocats Sans Frontières
- Censorship
- Chilling effect
- Committee to Protect Journalists
- Concerns and controversies over the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Cyber-dissident
- Freedom of speech
- Freedom of the press
- Freedom of the Press Foundation
- Internet censorship
- Internet censorship by country
- Internet freedom
- List of European countries by press freedom index
- List of indices of freedom
- List of Without Borders organizations
- Lorenzo Natali Journalism Prize
- Media transparency
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe statistics
- Political repression of cyber-dissidents
- Technology diffusion
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