Press freedom
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‘The Taliban say they’ll kill me if they find me’: a female reporter still on the run speaks out
We return to the story of a journalist forced to flee as Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in August. Unable to …
- Journalist safety, Media, Myanmar, Newspapers & magazines, Press freedom, South and Central Asia, World news
Photojournalist in Myanmar dies in military custody a week after arrest
Soe Naing was arrested in Yangon while taking photos of a ‘silent strike’ protest against military ruleA freel…
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Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov receive Nobel peace prize in Oslo
Filipina and Russian attend Oslo ceremony despite legal cases filed against Ressa and are first journalists to…
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Journalists in China face ‘nightmare’ worthy of Mao era, press freedom group says
Reporters Without Borders calls increasing media oppression in China a ‘great leap backwards’ and says Hong Ko…
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Nobel winner: ‘We journalists are the defence line between dictatorship and war’
Next week, Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov receive their Nobel peace prizes. In a rare interview, Muratov says …
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Philippines court allows Nobel laureate Maria Ressa to go to Norway
Journalist permitted to receive peace prize in person after judge eases travel restrictionsThe Philippine jour…
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Afghan journalists decry Taliban rules restricting role of women on TV
Journalists asked to wear a hijab and broadcasters told to stop showing dramas featuring female actorsAfghan j…
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China making example of jailed Wuhan Covid journalist, says lawyer
Zhang Zhan’s former lawyer says authorities are sending message, as calls grow for release on medical groundsT…
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Hong Kong denies visa to Economist journalist in latest media blow
Sue-lin Wong becomes latest foreign journalist to be forced out of the city as concerns about press access and…
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US journalist held in Myanmar charged with terrorism and sedition
Fresh charges for Danny Fenster, arrested in May as part of crackdown by junta, carry maximum sentence of life…
- Afghanistan, Human rights, Journalist safety, Law, Media, Press freedom, South and Central Asia, Taliban, World news
Fears grow for photojournalist arrested by Taliban as executions resume
Taliban deny Morteza Samadi, 21, has been sentenced to death but family concerned for his safety after he was …
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Taliban’s return ‘a catastrophe’ for journalism in Afghanistan
Head of International Federation of Journalists says ‘future is black’ for 1,300 journalists still in countryJ…
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The disappeared in Mexico, Afghan female footballers and a giant puppet: human rights this fortnight in pictures
A roundup of the coverage of the struggle for human rights and freedoms from Thailand to Texas Continue readin…
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Taliban to allow 200 foreigners to leave on charter flights
Departures will be among first international flights to take off from Kabul airport since end of US-led evacua…
- Afghanistan, BBC, Journalist safety, Media, Press freedom, South and Central Asia, UK news, World news
Ex-BBC journalists in Kabul say corporation ignored pleas for help
Fourteen Afghans including presenters, reporters and producers are now in hiding from the Taliban A group of s…