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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 abusesWith its nuclear bunker, textured walls and Bauhaus furniture, the former training school for combat troops might not look like a hotel, but fo…

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Two Stand News journalists in Hong Kong found guilty of sedition

Chris Patten condemns ‘dark day for press freedom’ as Chung Pui-kuen and Patrick Lam convicted over 11 articlesTwo journalists from the closed Hong Kong media outlet Stand News have been found guilty of conspiring to publish seditious materials – the f…

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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 under outgoing prime ministerBangladeshi journalists are hoping the resignation of prime minister Sheikh Hasina will bring to an end an era of cen…

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Philippines court voids order to shut down independent news site Rappler

Outlet, which was hit with order during Rodrigo Duterte administration, hails ruling after ‘eight years of harassment’A court in the Philippines has voided a shutdown order that was issued against Rappler, an independent news outlet known for its scrut…

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Journalists refused entry to Azerbaijan energy conference ahead of Cop29

Incident reignites concerns over crackdown on media before crucial UN climate talks in Baku later this yearWestern journalists were refused entry to an energy industry conference in Azerbaijan earlier this month, reigniting concerns over the state’s cr…

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‘It is worse now’: The Bookseller of Kabul author Åsne Seierstad on returning to Afghanistan 20 years on

The Norwegian writer on meeting the Taliban, her fears for girls’ education, and the legal battle that ensued after the publication of her bestselling bookThe author Åsne Seierstad’s cool, shaded garden, within walking distance from the centre of Oslo,…

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‘They are trying to eradicate us completely’: the passion and pain of telling the stories of Afghan women

Her family have been threatened and her team faces increasing risks in Afghanistan, but Zahra Joya knows she must keep reporting from exileOn the nights that she manages to fall asleep, Zahra Joya always returns to Afghanistan in her dreams. On good ni…

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