The latest annual survey by Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF), a media watchdog, claims that conditions have worsened in several rich Western countries while many poor ones are enjoying greater freedom.Some will find the report implausibly harsh towards the United States, which has fallen nine spots to 53rd place on the annual RSF press-freedom index.
Reporters Without Borders, or Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) said this year that it was "no coincidence" Rezaian was jailed at the time when Iran's moderate forces were trying to reach a nuclear accord with the west amid opposition from hardliners at home.
And the petition is supported by press freedom watchdogs such as the Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
Afraid to hire Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF), also known as Reporters Without Borders, a non-governmental organisation defending journalists, estimates that about 3,000 media workers in Iran are out of work after the post-2009 elecrackdownckdown by the regime.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said in April that the case was being used in an Iranian power struggle.
However, two months ago, Reporters San Frontieres (RSF) cited "diverse credible sources" who believe him to be alive and who further say he is not being held by Isis.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) published an extensive report into "digital mercenaries" such as Hacking Team, who provide the technical expertise which underpins Snowden-era electronic surveillance.
According to the Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF), at least 12 journalists and 14 citizen journalists and bloggers are in jail in Iran.
"They entered houses made from straw and grass and looted all our money and livestock," said Ezdeen Salih, a 37-year-old in Zam Zam, the biggest camp for the displaced in Darfur, of an attack she blamed on the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
On 6 January, a large joint force of the Sudanese army and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) moved from the city of Talodi into the nearby town of Kega, an opposition stronghold, and began shelling nearby rebel positions.
