カテゴリー: Press freedom
Thai parliament to investigate Prawit Wongsuwon after he repeatedly hit a journalist as she tried to ask him questionsThailand’s parliament has said it will investigate a senior politician and former army chief after he was filmed slapping a reporter a…
David Neuberger was part of court panel that dismissed appeal of Jimmy Lai and six other pro-democracy activistsDavid Neuberger, the former president of the UK’s supreme court, has resigned from his role as chair of a legal advisory board to an interna…
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…
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…
Seventh and most recent victim was ambushed while driving, as most cases thought likely to be work-relatedSeven reporters have been killed in Pakistan in the first six months of 2024, a record annual number with half a year still to go.The most recent …
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…
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,…
Ahmad Farhad was pushed into vehicle hours after posting about threats from country’s spy agency, says Syeda Urooj ZainabThe wife of a Pakistani poet and journalist who was abducted from outside his house last week has accused the country’s spy agency …
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…
The Etilaat Roz was once the most widely circulated newspaper in Kabul, but everything changed in August 2021 when the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan. With journalists tortured in the street for their reporting, many of the paper’s staff wer…
The Etilaat Roz was once the most widely circulated newspaper in Kabul, but everything changed in August 2021 when the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan. With journalists tortured in the street for their reporting, the paper’s staff were forced to fl…
We shed light on the regime’s crimes from the US, thanks to the extreme bravery of reporters on the groundSakhidad Hatif is the new editor-in-chief of Etilaat Roz, which is the subject of the Guardian documentary House No 30, KabulIn the two decades be…
The All-China Journalists Association – a Communist party-backed group – issue a rare rebuke of authorities attempts to ‘control public opinion’China’s journalist association has issued a rare rebuke over police harassment, after videos emerged of stat…
Bi Haibo of the Chinese embassy in the UK responds to a Guardian editorial about the trial of the media mogul and pro-democracy activistYour editorial (The Guardian view on Jimmy Lai: this sham trial is another bleak day for Hong Kong, 18 December) cla…
Hong Kong media mogul’s team raises concerns over testimony of former democracy activist who was imprisoned in ChinaThe international legal team for the imprisoned media mogul Jimmy Lai, who is on trial for national security offences in Hong Kong, has …