Reporters Without Borders or RSF (French: Reporters sans frontières) is a Paris-based international non-governmental organization that advocates freedom of the press. Their World Press Freedom Index is widely accepted.

RSF has published its annual report on Bangladesh for 2008 and it isn't pretty:

"A drop in the number of physical assaults and death threats was eclipsed by dozens of cases of arrests, maltreatment and censorship committed by the army against independent journalists. The interim government and the military put an end to political disorder but at the price of serious violations of press freedom."