Reporters Without Borders Director-General Christophe Deloire Passed Away

• 9.06.2024, 11:37

He died at the age of 53 years.

Christophe Deloire, the Director-General of Reporters Without Borders, died at the age of 53 after lengthy cancer treatment. This is stated on the organization's website.

“Christophe Deloire was a tireless defender of freedom, independence and pluralism of journalism on all continents in the face of information chaos. Journalism was his life's work and he fought with unshakable conviction,” the statement on the Reporters Without Borders website reads.

Deloire has been the head of the RSF since 2012. Before that, he worked on the ARTE and TF1 TV channels, in the publication Le Point, and was also the director of the Center for Training Journalists.

Reporters Without Borders is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1985 that defends freedom of speech and journalists. It has consultative status with the UN, UNESCO, and the Council of Europe.

As Radio Liberty notes, Deloire helped rescue Channel One editor Marina Ovsyannikova from Russia, who was facing prison time for appearing live with an anti-war poster.