RSF adds Trump to 2026 press freedom predators list
RSF published its annual predators list on the UN day against impunity, with A News reporting Trump's inclusion and Kenya counting 92 violations in 2025.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has published its 2026 Press Freedom Predators List. A News reported that US President Donald Trump was added to the list. Apart from that report, the accounts of the list's release available to this desk did not name the individuals or institutions it cites.
Channel Africa reported that the publication coincides with the United Nations' International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, which is marked on 2 November and focuses on the failure to prosecute crimes against reporters.
Thibaut Bruttin, RSF's director general and secretary-general, told France 24: "When a journalist is killed, it is everyone's right to know what is being endangered." France 24 broadcast the interview for the UN day and said reporters face lethal violence, imprisonment, political intimidation and hostile working conditions. It described the question behind the list as who controls the public's access to truth.
In Nairobi, the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights said Kenya recorded 92 verified press freedom violations in 2025, with physical assaults accounting for 67 per cent of the cases. The commission said the figures came from the Media Council of Kenya's State of Media Freedom in Kenya 2026 report.
"When journalists are attacked for seeking the truth, the public's right to information is threatened," the commission said in a statement issued on Monday. It called for prompt, impartial and effective investigations into crimes against journalists, and said accountability should reach the people who plan or facilitate attacks, not only those who carry them out.
The commission asked the government and relevant institutions to protect journalists from physical, digital and legal harassment. It said a safe environment for independent reporting is needed for the public to hold institutions to account.
"Protect journalists. Defend freedom of expression. End impunity," the statement said.
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