Censorship
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‘Publishing these books is a risk’: Taiwan’s booksellers stand up for democracy
Detention of publisher Li Yanhe in China for ‘endangering national security’ has sent chills through island’s …
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Twitter accused of censorship in India as it blocks Modi critics
Canadian politician, poet, an India MP and journalists are among 120 accounts that have been withheldTwitter h…
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Screenings of Winnie the Pooh horror film cancelled in Hong Kong
Distributor gives no reason for cancellation, but Chinese censors have targeted Pooh before due to Xi Jinping …
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‘Bulldozer politics’: Modi’s demolition drive fuels Muslims’ fears in Kashmir
Violence and censorship rife among citizens and the media, as push to reclaim state land belies Indian governm…
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China’s ‘rotten girls’ are escaping into erotic fiction about gay men
Danmei is by some measures the most popular genre of fiction for women in China, and its popularity hasn’t gon…
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India enjoyed a free and vibrant media. Narendra Modi’s brazen attacks are a catastrophe | Kenan Malik
The prime minister’s cynical raids on the BBC are the latest populist clampdown on a press and broadcasting ‘e…
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Simpsons censored in Hong Kong for mentioning China ‘labour camps’
Episode removed from Disney+ is the second of the cartoon to be made unavailable in Hong KongAn episode of the…
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Nanjing massacre: Guardian cables censored by Japanese officials – archive, January 1938
January 1938: Reports from Shanghai are suppressed by the Imperial Japanese Army, provoking a diplomatic prote…
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China announces lunar new year censorship crackdown to silence Covid ‘rumours’
Plan to target ‘gloomy sentiments’ across festival period comes as independent health forecasters estimate ove…
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Hong Kong pressures Google to remove protest anthem from searches
Authorities want Glory to Hong Kong axed from top results and replaced with China’s national anthemGoogle has …
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China accused of flooding social media with spam to cover up Covid protests
US firm says network of bot accounts also hijacking hashtags in large-scale attempt to obscure coverageAn atte…
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New Zealand woman takes Chinese media site to human rights tribunal over ban
Auckland woman says she was banned from popular Chinese-language media forum SkyKiwi for posting political con…
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From blank paper to alpacas: how protesters in China are voicing their anger – video
The largest protests in a generation erupted in cities across China over the weekend against the government’s …
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China censors maskless crowd footage in World Cup broadcasts
As protesters in Chinese cities rage against Xi Jinping’s zero-Covid policy, TV feeds are edited to avoid crow…
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Film depicting transgender love affair to be screened in Pakistan
Cannes Jury prize-winning Joyland had previously been banned following objections by Islamist hardlinersA Paki…