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Adviser to jailed owner Jimmy Lai says newspaper cannot pay staff after officials froze banking facilitiesHong Kong’s Apple Daily newspaper and website could shut down this weekend if authorities do not agree to the board’s request to unfreeze its asse…
Newspaper staff gather outside court ahead of appearance of editor-in-chief Ryan Law and chief executive Cheung Kim-hung Two executives from Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Apple Daily have appeared in court, charged with collusion after authorities deployed…
In One Thousand Dreams, award-winning photographer Robin Hammond hands the camera to refugees. Often reduced by the media’s toxic or well-meaning narratives, the portraits and interviews capture a different and more complex tale‘Never stop dreaming’: r…
Public outpouring of support for tabloid after raid on offices by national security policeHongkongers queued at city news stands before dawn on Friday to buy the latest edition of the Apple Daily newspaper, a day after national security police arrested…
Apple Daily hits back after executives arrested in second raid on pro-democracy paper’s newsroomApple Daily’s journalism has ruffled feathers since its establishment in 1995. A populist Hong Kong tabloid owned by Jimmy Lai, a pro-Trump media mogul and …
Ryan Law, the editor-in-chief of Apple Daily, has been arrested along with four other directors of the pro-democracy newspaper on suspicion of collusion with a foreign country or ‘external elements’ to endanger national security. The newspaper’s owner,…
Ryan Law among five directors detained under national security legislation imposed by BeijingHong Kong’s national security police have arrested the editor-in-chief and four other directors of the Apple Daily newspaper in early morning raids involving h…
Journalism has been outlawed in all but name since the coup, with reporters and editors fleeing the country or leading double lives to surviveAs a cyclone rolled over the Bay of Bengal on 24 May, American journalist Danny Fenster, 37, contemplated the …
I’ve been taken off air and others have been beaten up. Why is the prime minister not standing with us?Once upon a time, Imran Khan and I used to fight for press freedom together in Pakistan. In November 2007, when then military ruler General Pervez Mu…
Employees at public broadcaster RTHK voice fears for future amid gradual erosion of media freedoms Normally at this time of year Hong Kong media are bustling to prepare coverage of Friday’s anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre which, before Cov…
A roundup of the coverage on struggles for human rights and freedoms, from Myanmar to Peru Continue reading…
Rozina Islam’s family claim reporter has been assaulted and subject to ‘mental torture’ by policeOne of Bangladesh’s most prominent investigative journalists, known for her anti-corruption reporting and criticism of the government’s response to Covid-1…
Report in the Australian newspaper promoting Markson’s book on origins of Covid criticised as misleading and alarmist by China analystsThe Australian’s exclusive about a “chilling” document produced by Chinese military scientists is based on a discredi…