カテゴリー: Press freedom
Soe Naing was arrested in Yangon while taking photos of a ‘silent strike’ protest against military ruleA freelance photojournalist in Myanmar has died in military custody after being arrested last week while covering protests.Soe Naing is the first jou…
Filipina and Russian attend Oslo ceremony despite legal cases filed against Ressa and are first journalists to win since 1935The journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov received the Nobel peace prize on Friday at a ceremony that Ressa was almost blo…
Reporters Without Borders calls increasing media oppression in China a ‘great leap backwards’ and says Hong Kong journalism is ‘in freefall’Xi Jinping has created a “nightmare” of media oppression worthy of the Mao era, and Hong Kong’s journalism is in…
Next week, Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov receive their Nobel peace prizes. In a rare interview, Muratov says he fears the world is sliding towards fascismThe last time a journalist won a Nobel prize was 1935. The journalist who won it – Carl von Ossie…
Journalist permitted to receive peace prize in person after judge eases travel restrictionsThe Philippine journalist Maria Ressa will be allowed to travel overseas so she can accept her Nobel peace prize in person after a court gave her permission to l…
Journalists asked to wear a hijab and broadcasters told to stop showing dramas featuring female actorsAfghan journalists and rights activists have condemned “religious guidelines” issued by the Taliban that restrict the role of women in television, as …
Zhang Zhan’s former lawyer says authorities are sending message, as calls grow for release on medical groundsThe detention of Zhang Zhan, the Chinese journalist jailed after reporting on the Covid pandemic in Wuhan, is intended as a “warning to others”…
Sue-lin Wong becomes latest foreign journalist to be forced out of the city as concerns about press access and freedoms growHong Kong has refused to renew the visa of an Australian correspondent from the Economist, the newspaper’s chief editor said, am…
Fresh charges for Danny Fenster, arrested in May as part of crackdown by junta, carry maximum sentence of life in prisonMyanmar’s junta has charged a US journalist detained since May with sedition and terrorism, which carry a maximum sentence of life i…
Taliban deny Morteza Samadi, 21, has been sentenced to death but family concerned for his safety after he was detained while covering women’s protests in HeratFears are growing for a photojournalist who has been detained by the Taliban for more than th…
Head of International Federation of Journalists says ‘future is black’ for 1,300 journalists still in countryJournalism in Afghanistan is in danger of disappearing, according to the head of the International Federation of Journalists, who said that rep…
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Departures will be among first international flights to take off from Kabul airport since end of US-led evacuationTwo hundred Americans and other foreigners who remain in Afghanistan were expected to depart the country on charter flights from Kabul on …
Fourteen Afghans including presenters, reporters and producers are now in hiding from the Taliban A group of senior Afghan journalists who spent time working for the BBC have accused the corporation and the UK government of ignoring their pleas for hel…
Reporters from international outlets have suffered worsening intimidation while covering Henan floodsPress groups have expressed alarm at the worsening intimidation of foreign media in China, often driven by government officials and organisations.As re…