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Police target outlet after hospitals stormed on Sunday night amid call for strike in protest at coupMyanmar security forces have raided the Yangon offices of a local media outlet as the ruling junta widens its efforts to suppress opposition to the coup…
Read MoreMalaysiakini guilty of contempt over five remarks that the court said undermined confidence in the judiciaryOne of Malaysia’s most prominent independent news outlets has been has been found in contempt of court over comments posted by readers, a verdic…
Read MoreMy colleagues reporting on alleged police violence at farmers’ protests have fallen foul of Modi’s governmentThe protests against farm laws that were hurriedly passed by the Indian government in September pose the most severe challenge to Prime Ministe…
Read MoreCases filed against nine journalists over reports that police officer fatally shot protester At least nine senior Indian journalists are facing criminal charges for reporting allegations that Delhi police fatally shot a farmer in the head during protes…
Read MoreThe journalists were convicted at one-day trial and sentenced to between 11 and 15 years in jailA court in Vietnam has sentenced three freelance journalists known for their criticism of government to between 11 and 15 years in prison, after finding the…
Read MoreWriters including Salman Rushdie express anger after journalist Salil Tripathi has account suspendedTwitter has been accused of censoring the prominent Indian journalist Salil Tripathi by suspending his account, after he tweeted on subjects including t…
Read MoreAmnesty report accuses sites of openly signalling they will bow to authoritarian regimesFacebook and YouTube are complicit in “censorship and repression on an industrial scale” in Vietnam, according to a report by Amnesty International that accuses the…
Read MoreZhang Zhan was arrested more than six months ago after reporting on the outbreakA Chinese citizen journalist detained since May for reporting on the coronavirus outbreak from Wuhan is facing up to five years in jail after being formally indicted on cha…
Read MoreChoy Yuk-ling reportedly held over film about claims of police collusion with armed thugsHong Kong police have arrested a journalist at a public broadcaster, reportedly in relation to a documentary about the 2019 Yuen Long incident, when police were ac…
Read MoreAli Imran Syed’s disappearance in Karachi registered as ‘abduction’ by Pakistani policeA reporter working for Pakistan’s leading Geo News television has gone missing in the southern port city of Karachi, family and colleagues said.The Geo bureau chief …
Read MoreMike Pompeo says move is part of efforts to push back against ‘propaganda efforts’; Chinese state media says Beijing will retaliateThe state department is designating the US operations of six more China-based media companies as foreign missions, US sec…
Read MoreVoice TV, which has links to former PM Thaksin Shinawatra, faces closure over coverage of youth-led protests against government and monarchyA Thai news outlet connected to exiled former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been ordered to shut down ov…
Read MoreChen Qiushi who reported on Chinese response to virus believed to be in detentionCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA Chinese citizen journalist who disappeared in February while reporting on China’s early response to the coron…
Read MoreMagistrate finds no evidence pro-democracy tycoon tried to instil fear in reporter from rival paperThe Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been cleared of criminal intimidation charges dating from 2017, bringing to a close one of several cases against…
Read MoreIrish journalist Aaron McNicholas’s visa was rejected in what’s believed to the first such case at a local titleAfter months of reassurance that Beijing’s national security law would not affect Hong Kong’s free press, the government has denied a visa t…
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