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RFE/RL journalists, often at great personal risk, work to spread knowledge and combat lies to ensure that people even in the world’s most oppressed nations have access to the truth. 

RFE/RL Radio Farda journalist Hannah Kaviani explains how reporting on the coronavirus outbreak in Iran is part of a larger challenge of countering censorship and debunking lies.

“Today the state has a new ‘stick’ – ‘fake news’ about the coronavirus,” says journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva, a contributor to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Russian Service.

Mykola Semena, a contributor to RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service, speaks about his arrest in Russian-occupied Crimea.

Stanislav Aseyev, a contributor to RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service, was recently released in a Russia-Ukraine prisoner exchange.

Svetlana Prokopyeva, a freelance contributor to RFE/RL’s Russian Service, faces a seven-year charge for “using a mass media platform to justify terrorism.”

Acting Managing Editor of RFE/RL’s Tajik Service, Sirojiddin Tolibov, explains how the Service reports on one of the most authoritarian countries in the world.

Two years ago today, three journalists with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Afghan Service were killed in Kabul, Afghanistan.

With its first on-air message on July 4, 1950, Radio Free Europe (RFE) began its mission of providing uncensored news and information to people denied the right of access to…