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WASHINGTON - Today, Radio Free Asia (RFA) leadership informed its furloughed and the majority of their additional staff that they would be laid off, effective May 9. By the end of May, half of RFA’s language services will no longer produce or publish new content: RFA Tibetan, Burmese, Uyghur - which is the world’s only independent Uyghur language news service - and Lao (which closed down this week already). Also, ceasing operations will be RFA English service and Asia Fact Check Lab, a special unit focused on picking apart false narratives seeded by the Chinese Communist Party. These moves are drastic but necessary, RFA President and CEO Bay Fang said, given the delays in receiving its funds from the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), despite a court order last week.
“We are in an unconscionable situation,”...
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