Antoine Bernard
@antoinebernard.bsky.social
Director @rsf.org, leading Reporters Without Borders (RSF) advocacy, strategic litigation, assistance & digital ops.
Also codirector, Master on #humanrights & humanitarian action @sciencespo.bsky.social (PSIA).
Also codirector, Master on #humanrights & humanitarian action @sciencespo.bsky.social (PSIA).
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#Russia: Journalist Ekaterina Barabash recounted her escape from Russia, where she faced a ten-year prison sentence, at RSF headquarters in Paris today. The journalist is now safe in France thanks to an exfiltration operation coordinated by RSF.
RSF exfiltrates Ekaterina Barabash: the Russian journalist’s escape from Moscow to Paris
On 5 May, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) held a press conference at its headquarters to present Ekaterina Barabash to the press. The Russian journalist and film critic disappeared from Moscow, where ...
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May 5, 2025 at 10:45 AM
#Russia: Journalist Ekaterina Barabash recounted her escape from Russia, where she faced a ten-year prison sentence, at RSF headquarters in Paris today. The journalist is now safe in France thanks to an exfiltration operation coordinated by RSF.
‘Fight back’: journalist taking #Trump administration to court calls for media to resist attacks (@rsf.org proud co-plaintiff)
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‘Fight back’: journalist taking Trump administration to court calls for media to resist attacks
Patsy Widakuswara, lead plaintiff in lawsuit fighting order to dismantle Voice of America, says US government is becoming more aggressive
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May 5, 2025 at 5:42 AM
‘Fight back’: journalist taking #Trump administration to court calls for media to resist attacks (@rsf.org proud co-plaintiff)
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May 5, 2025 at 5:24 AM
🔴World Press Freedom Index 25 is out!
📣Get informed on rsf.org/en
📣A summary? Watch @fionaobrien.bsky.social's report
youtu.be/JZFZ_QiXqWQ
📣Get informed on rsf.org/en
📣A summary? Watch @fionaobrien.bsky.social's report
youtu.be/JZFZ_QiXqWQ
World Press Freedom Index 2025
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May 2, 2025 at 6:03 AM
🔴World Press Freedom Index 25 is out!
📣Get informed on rsf.org/en
📣A summary? Watch @fionaobrien.bsky.social's report
youtu.be/JZFZ_QiXqWQ
📣Get informed on rsf.org/en
📣A summary? Watch @fionaobrien.bsky.social's report
youtu.be/JZFZ_QiXqWQ
🔴Trump’s war on the press: 10 numbers from the US President’s first 100 days.
Making propaganda great again.
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Making propaganda great again.
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Trump’s war on the press: 10 numbers from the US President’s first 100 days
As President Donald Trump approaches the 100-day mark of his second presidency, he continues to carry out the threats he made on the campaign trail against the news media by intensifying his monumenta...
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April 26, 2025 at 6:40 AM
🔴Trump’s war on the press: 10 numbers from the US President’s first 100 days.
Making propaganda great again.
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Making propaganda great again.
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🔴(Very)BIG: @rsf.org & #VOA coalition secure 2nd court victory agst #Trump's captured #USAGM, win injunction to restore employees & programming!
➡️Judge: "It is hard to fathom a more straightforward display of arbitrary and capricious actions than the Defendants’ actions here"
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➡️Judge: "It is hard to fathom a more straightforward display of arbitrary and capricious actions than the Defendants’ actions here"
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USA: RSF and VOA coalition win injunction against Trump administration
Judge Royce Lamberth granted a preliminary injunction against Kari Lake and the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) sought by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), Voice of America (VOA) employees, and thei...
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April 23, 2025 at 6:30 AM
🔴(Very)BIG: @rsf.org & #VOA coalition secure 2nd court victory agst #Trump's captured #USAGM, win injunction to restore employees & programming!
➡️Judge: "It is hard to fathom a more straightforward display of arbitrary and capricious actions than the Defendants’ actions here"
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➡️Judge: "It is hard to fathom a more straightforward display of arbitrary and capricious actions than the Defendants’ actions here"
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🔴BIG! @rsf.org & #VOA coplaintiff staff and TU secure big first court victory
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March 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
🔴BIG! @rsf.org & #VOA coplaintiff staff and TU secure big first court victory
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#Philippines: A coalition of international and local press freedom NGOs, including RSF, called on President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to release journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio, who finished testifying today. She's been languishing in detention for over 5 years. #FreeFrenchieMaeCumpio!
#FreeFrenchieMaeCumpio: RSF and international coalition call for Philippine journalist’s release as trial enters crucial stage
A coalition of international and local press freedom organisations, including Reporters Without Borders (RSF), called on President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to immediately release Philippine journalist Fre...
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March 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
#Philippines: A coalition of international and local press freedom NGOs, including RSF, called on President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to release journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio, who finished testifying today. She's been languishing in detention for over 5 years. #FreeFrenchieMaeCumpio!
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#USA: RSF and its co-plaintiffs filed a motion for a temporary restraining order to halt the immediate dissolution of #VOA and the reinstatement of its employees, adding to its lawsuit against the Trump administration.
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USA: RSF sues Trump administration to defend Voice of America
Following President Donald Trump’s executive order to dismantle the government-funded, editorially independent news outlet Voice of America (VOA), Reporters Without Borders (RSF) joined VOA employees ...
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March 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
#USA: RSF and its co-plaintiffs filed a motion for a temporary restraining order to halt the immediate dissolution of #VOA and the reinstatement of its employees, adding to its lawsuit against the Trump administration.
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#USA: RSF has joined #VOA, the US’ largest and oldest international broadcaster, in a lawsuit against Trump's admin. VOA is legally protected from US gvt influence & one of the only independent sources reporting from heavily censored countries — yet Trump wants to gut it. rsf.org/en/usa-rsf-s...
USA: RSF sues Trump administration to defend Voice of America
Following President Donald Trump’s executive order to dismantle the government-funded, editorially independent news outlet Voice of America (VOA), Reporters Without Borders (RSF) joined VOA employees ...
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March 21, 2025 at 10:48 PM
#USA: RSF has joined #VOA, the US’ largest and oldest international broadcaster, in a lawsuit against Trump's admin. VOA is legally protected from US gvt influence & one of the only independent sources reporting from heavily censored countries — yet Trump wants to gut it. rsf.org/en/usa-rsf-s...
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75% of US-based staff at Radio Free Asia were just put on administrative leave due to an executive order signed by US President Donald Trump. This decision endangers RFA staff abroad & could lead to the deportation of US-based journalists facing persecution in their home countries.
USA: journalists endangered as 75 per cent of Radio Free Asia’s US staff furloughed due to Trump executive order
Seventy-five per cent of the US-based staff at the government-funded, editorially independent news service Radio Free Asia (RFA) were put on administrative leave due to an executive order signed by US...
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March 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
75% of US-based staff at Radio Free Asia were just put on administrative leave due to an executive order signed by US President Donald Trump. This decision endangers RFA staff abroad & could lead to the deportation of US-based journalists facing persecution in their home countries.
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On the occasion of 8 March, RSF salutes the work of investigative journalist Hanin Gebran, released from the jails of the former Syrian dictatorship 3 months ago. RSF continues to investigate in order to identify her torturers and calls for justice for all persecuted female media professionals.
Hanin Gebran, released from al-Assad's jails in Syria: “The conditions in which journalists were held were horrible, and much worse for a woman”
Imprisoned for nearly six months in inhuman conditions until the fall of Bashar al-Assad on 8 December 2024, journalist Hanin Gibran has returned to writing in a transformed country, but where her ind...
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March 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
On the occasion of 8 March, RSF salutes the work of investigative journalist Hanin Gebran, released from the jails of the former Syrian dictatorship 3 months ago. RSF continues to investigate in order to identify her torturers and calls for justice for all persecuted female media professionals.
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#Italy: it’s been over a month since @theguardian.com exposed the surveillance of journalist Francesco Cancellato, yet the gvt's response remains inconsistent and opaque. RSF calls on the authorities to clarify how + why the spyware was used & identify the culprits of this attack on #pressfreedom👇
Italian government must explain spyware surveillance of journalist Francesco Cancellato
Complaints concerning the surveillance of Francesco Cancellato, editor-in-chief of the investigative outlet FanPage, and several activists continue to multiply — yet the response from the Italian gove...
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March 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
#Italy: it’s been over a month since @theguardian.com exposed the surveillance of journalist Francesco Cancellato, yet the gvt's response remains inconsistent and opaque. RSF calls on the authorities to clarify how + why the spyware was used & identify the culprits of this attack on #pressfreedom👇
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After months of silence and lies about her fate, Russian authorities finally acknowledged her detention before announcing her death.
To shed light on the many unknown factors surrounding the disappearance of Victoria Roshchyna, RSF and three Ukrainian media investigated.
Watch our investigation ⬇️
To shed light on the many unknown factors surrounding the disappearance of Victoria Roshchyna, RSF and three Ukrainian media investigated.
Watch our investigation ⬇️
Declared dead by Russia, the brutal reality of Victoria Roshchyna’s last months in captivity
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March 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
After months of silence and lies about her fate, Russian authorities finally acknowledged her detention before announcing her death.
To shed light on the many unknown factors surrounding the disappearance of Victoria Roshchyna, RSF and three Ukrainian media investigated.
Watch our investigation ⬇️
To shed light on the many unknown factors surrounding the disappearance of Victoria Roshchyna, RSF and three Ukrainian media investigated.
Watch our investigation ⬇️
"L'administration n'envisage les médias qu'en position couchée, de gré ou de force" par @piosmo.bsky.social #Trump
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Donald Trump et les médias : une stratégie de la confrontation, entre saturation tonitruante et pressions inédites
Influenceurs et podcasteurs du monde MAGA ont portes ouvertes dans les institutions officielles tandis que le pouvoir exécutif maltraite la presse traditionnelle, jusqu’à restreindre son accès à la Ma...
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February 21, 2025 at 7:04 AM
"L'administration n'envisage les médias qu'en position couchée, de gré ou de force" par @piosmo.bsky.social #Trump
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#Syria: the French National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office has extended the judicial investigation into the bombing of the Baba Amr press centre to include crimes against humanity for the persecution of journalists. RSF is a civil party in the case and welcomes this news.
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France urged to complete judicial probe into Marie Colvin and Rémi Ochlik’s deaths in Syria ten years ago
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the French judicial authorities to complete their war crimes investigation into the Syrian army’s shelling of a media centre in the city of Homs exactly ten ye...
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February 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
#Syria: the French National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office has extended the judicial investigation into the bombing of the Baba Amr press centre to include crimes against humanity for the persecution of journalists. RSF is a civil party in the case and welcomes this news.
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres visited RSF headquarters today and reaffirmed his commitment to press freedom and reliable information for #RSFTalks. He also unveiled a commemorative plaque in honour of Christophe Deloire, the late Secretary-General of RSF. ⬇️
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres visited RSF headquarters.
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February 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
UN Secretary-General António Guterres visited RSF headquarters today and reaffirmed his commitment to press freedom and reliable information for #RSFTalks. He also unveiled a commemorative plaque in honour of Christophe Deloire, the late Secretary-General of RSF. ⬇️
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🔴#USA: #Trump's foreign aid freeze throws journalism around the world into chaos
📢@rsf.org is appealing to the international public and private funders to commit to the sustainability of independent media #pressfreedom⤵️
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📢@rsf.org is appealing to the international public and private funders to commit to the sustainability of independent media #pressfreedom⤵️
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USA: Trump’s foreign aid freeze throws journalism around the world into chaos
President Donald Trump has frozen billions of dollars around the world in aid projects, including over $268 million allocated by Congress to support independent media and the free flow of information....
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February 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
🔴#USA: #Trump's foreign aid freeze throws journalism around the world into chaos
📢@rsf.org is appealing to the international public and private funders to commit to the sustainability of independent media #pressfreedom⤵️
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📢@rsf.org is appealing to the international public and private funders to commit to the sustainability of independent media #pressfreedom⤵️
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9 ans de procès, 24 comparutions, charges fallacieuses, 14 ans de prison encourus: «Cette affaire comme toutes les autres sont autant d’épées de Damoclès sur l’activité de journaliste en #Turquie». On est avec toi @erolonderoglu.bsky.social @rsf-inter.bsky.social
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Erol Önderoglu, journaliste : « En Turquie, on observe un perfectionnement du système autoritaire contre les médias »
Le nouveau report du procès du représentant de Reporters sans frontières dans le pays, après neuf ans de procédure, illustre la dégradation en continu de l’indépendance de la justice turque. Ces derni...
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February 1, 2025 at 9:35 AM
9 ans de procès, 24 comparutions, charges fallacieuses, 14 ans de prison encourus: «Cette affaire comme toutes les autres sont autant d’épées de Damoclès sur l’activité de journaliste en #Turquie». On est avec toi @erolonderoglu.bsky.social @rsf-inter.bsky.social
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#Belarus: before sham presidential election on 26 Jan, @rsf-inter.bsky.social filed a complaint with #ICC for #Lukashenko’s crimes agst humanity: 589 arbitrary arrests of 397 journos, 43 still in jail, hundreds in exile. Stop impunity! rsf.org/en/belarus-a...
Belarus: ahead of sham election, RSF files ICC complaint for Lukashenko’s crimes against humanity targeting journalists
After five years of inflicting an unprecedented crackdown on the press, Alexander Lukashenko is set to run for a seventh presidential term on Sunday, 26 January. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has fi...
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January 25, 2025 at 7:59 AM
#Belarus: before sham presidential election on 26 Jan, @rsf-inter.bsky.social filed a complaint with #ICC for #Lukashenko’s crimes agst humanity: 589 arbitrary arrests of 397 journos, 43 still in jail, hundreds in exile. Stop impunity! rsf.org/en/belarus-a...