Censorship
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‘A sense of freedom’: China’s small bookshops relocate across the world
As stores that were spaces for open discussion have been forced to close, new ventures spring up overseasOn 24…
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China cracks down on ‘uncivilised’ online puns used to discuss sensitive topics
Campaign targets wordplay and memes that are often used by people to get around censorship controlsChina’s int…
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‘This is a big chance for all of us’: Germany’s freedom hotel where exiled journalists take refuge
As attacks on the press rise, the House of Critical Voices offers sanctuary for media workers exposing abusesW…
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How China’s internet police went from targeting bloggers to their followers
In recent months, followers of influential liberal bloggers have been interviewed by police as China widens it…
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Bangladeshi journalists hopeful for return to press freedom as Hasina era ends
Reporters cautiously optimistic as interim government takes over after years of intimation and censorship unde…
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Two poems, four years in detention: the Chinese dissident who smuggled his writing out of prison
My poems were written in anger after Tiananmen Square. But what motivates most prison writing is a fear of for…
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Court bans Glory to Hong Kong protest song prompting further fears for free speech
The territory’s justice minister has called for the anthem to be removed from the internet in the wake of the …
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Number of writers jailed in China exceeds 100 for first time, says report
Freedom to Write index says there are 107 people in prison for published content in China, with many accused o…
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First scientist to publish Covid sequence in China protests over lab ‘eviction’
Zhang Yongzhen stages sit-in protest, as government attempts to avoid scrutiny over handling of outbreakThe fi…
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North Korean TV censors BBC presenter’s jeans to hide ‘symbol of US imperialism’ – video
His calm demeanour and wholesome vocation have apparently endeared him to one of the most authoritarian regime…
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Alan Titchmarsh’s jeans blurred by North Korean TV censors
Footage of green-fingered BBC presenter obscured from waist down to hide ‘symbol of US imperialism’His calm de…
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Azerbaijan accused of crackdown on journalists in run-up to election
Sevinc Vaqifgizi is one of 13 independent journalists detained since snap presidential vote announcedIn late N…
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Amazon’s Expats series not available in Hong Kong, where it is set
First two episodes inaccessible to viewers in city, with some attributing censorship to umbrella protest scene…
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Jimmy Lai trial: heavy security presence as landmark national security case begins in Hong Kong
Media mogul and pro-democracy activist accused of conspiring to collude with foreign forces and faces life in …
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Xi critic who fled on jetski to South Korea will die if sent back to China, says father
Fears South Korean court will impose harsh penalty on Kwon Pyong to appease BeijingThe father of a Chinese dis…