According to RSF, the NGO has already faced extreme difficulty in monitoring Assange’s extradition proceedings, precisely for the opposite reason as supposedly why their visit was barred today: because they are an NGO and therefore not permitted to register for accreditation as journalists. RSF also chronicled how the UK government has twice rejected their petitions to not extradite Assange, with tens of thousands of signatures. https://www.activistpost.com/2023/04/reporters-without-borders-barred-from-visiting-julian-assange.html