カテゴリー: Press freedom
Dainik Bhaskar accuses government of pursuing it on trumped-up charges in response to its reportingCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageTax raids have been carried out on the offices of one of India’s most popular newspapers, aft…
Nathan Maung says security forces punched, slapped and beat him, and kept him blindfolded for over a weekMyanmar’s security forces punched, slapped and beat a US journalist and kept him blindfolded for more than a week of interrogation, he said after b…
Newspaper’s closure shows how pro-democracy movement and press freedom are being crushedOn Wednesday morning, the Apple Daily reporter Angel Kwan was at a government press conference for the Hong Kong census when her phone started buzzing with notifica…
Large crowds have queued in Hong Kong to buy the final edition of the Apple Daily. The closure of Hong Kong’s largest pro-democracy newspaper comes one week after five high-profile staff were arrested, the company’s office raided and millions of dollar…
Million copies printed of last issue as journalists at newspaper that was forced to close mourn ‘historical moment’Across Hong Kong on Thursday morning the queues stretched for hundreds of metres, wrapping around corner after corner. Starting before da…
Key moments in the recent history of territory’s largest pro-democracy newspaperJune 2019 The first protests begin in Hong Kong, with millions of people taking to the street in protest against a proposed extradition bill, which critics fear will allow …
Analysis: A palpable chill has run through the Hong Kong media, amid warnings about ‘fake news’ The fate of Apple Daily, one of Hong Kong’s bestselling tabloids, should not come as a surprise. On the day Jimmy Lai, its founder, was sentenced to 14 mont…
Tabloid founded by Jimmy Lai and targeted by police raid last week will print final edition on Thursday‘The blackest day’: Apple Daily’s demise comes as no surpriseHong Kong’s largest pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily, will shut down online at midni…
Arrest of journalist who publishes under the name Li Ping is the first of a writer at the pro-democracy newspaperThe editorial writer for Hong Kong’s Apple Daily newspaper has been arrested, the latest move in a media crackdown under the national secu…
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Adviser to jailed owner Jimmy Lai says newspaper cannot pay staff after officials froze banking facilitiesHong Kong’s Apple Daily newspaper and website could shut down this weekend if authorities do not agree to the board’s request to unfreeze its asse…
Newspaper staff gather outside court ahead of appearance of editor-in-chief Ryan Law and chief executive Cheung Kim-hung Two executives from Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Apple Daily have appeared in court, charged with collusion after authorities deployed…
Apple Daily hits back after executives arrested in second raid on pro-democracy paper’s newsroomApple Daily’s journalism has ruffled feathers since its establishment in 1995. A populist Hong Kong tabloid owned by Jimmy Lai, a pro-Trump media mogul and …
Hong Kong’s security chief, John Lee, accused the five Apple Daily directors arrested on Thursday of using ‘journalistic work as a tool to endanger national security’. Lee said the five were arrested on suspicion of collusion with foreign countrie…
Ryan Law, the editor-in-chief of Apple Daily, has been arrested along with four other directors of the pro-democracy newspaper on suspicion of collusion with a foreign country or ‘external elements’ to endanger national security. The newspaper’s owner,…