{"id":845456,"date":"2026-03-23T18:31:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T18:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/845456\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T18:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T18:31:17","slug":"usa-rsf-and-allies-file-second-lawsuit-to-save-public-broadcaster-voa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/845456\/","title":{"rendered":"USA: RSF and allies file second lawsuit to save public broadcaster VOA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Both RSF and its US-based affiliate, Reporters Without Borders, Inc., have joined this lawsuit alongside co-plaintiffs PEN America Center, Inc., and Government Accountability Project. The four individual plaintiffs are Barry Newhouse, until recently the Acting Director of the\u00a0VOA\u00a0Central News Division; Ayesha Tanzeem, Director of\u00a0VOA&#8217;s South &amp; Central Asia Division; Dong Hyuk Lee, Chief of\u00a0VOA\u2019s Korean Service; and Ksenia Turkova, a\u00a0VOA journalist.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A federal court has already\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/usa-victory-rsf-and-voa-journalists-court-orders-voa-back-work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ruled<\/a> that\u00a0VOA\u00a0journalists should return to work and that broadcasting should resume, though the government has appealed that decision.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Both RSF and its US-based affiliate, Reporters Without Borders, Inc., have joined this lawsuit alongside co-plaintiffs PEN America&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":845457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-845456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116279921243021066","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}