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Last August, one Afghan reporter told how her life imploded when the militants took power. One year on, she tells of desperate months trying to evade capture and flee the countryThe day the Taliban entered my city last August, I started to receive rene…
Read MoreGroup who worked with UK media to sue government over failure to relocate them to BritainA group of Afghan journalists who worked closely with the UK media for years have revealed how they face beatings, death threats and months in hiding, and accuse t…
Read MoreReporter and lecturer’s arrest in dawn raid another blow to city’s press amid Beijing crackdownA veteran Hong Kong journalist has been arrested by national security police for allegedly conspiring to publish “seditious materials”, a police source and l…
Read MoreJournalist and several other reporters freed after being held while on assignment with UNHCRThe Taliban have released a British journalist and several other reporters they had been holding for several days, in an incident that deepened concerns about p…
Read MoreInternational body calls on foreign governments to support journalists fleeing Hong KongThe fight for democracy and media freedom in Hong Kong feels like it has “entered its endgame”, after a year of crackdowns, arrests and forced closures of outlets, …
Read MoreReport says heightened dangers have prompted at least six to leave and many others to develop emergency exit plansThe Chinese government is finding new ways to intimidate foreign journalists, their Chinese colleagues and their sources, and harassment h…
Read MoreActivists say crackdown is driven by Xi Jinping, who has ‘declared a war on independent journalism’Chen Kun was living in Indonesia with his wife and daughter when he learned from his brother Mei’s boss that he had been “taken away for investigation” b…
Read MoreIndependent online news portal to cease operations amid ‘worsening environment for media’ in cityThe Hong Kong independent news outlet Citizen News has said it will cease operations from Tuesday in the face of what it described as a deteriorating media…
Read MoreWe return to the story of a journalist forced to flee as Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in August. Unable to return home without putting at risk everyone she loves and hounded by threatening calls, she remains in hiding in the country four months onRe…
Read MoreSoe 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…
Read MoreJournalist 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…
Read MoreMore than 250 newspapers, radio and TV stations have closed in first 100 days of militants’ ruleThe romantic serials have gone after the Taliban warned against racy content, the popular women’s call-in shows were axed after the militants said they didn…
Read MoreJournalists 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 …
Read MoreZhang 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”…
Read MoreFenster’s employer says he is flying out of the country, days after he was sentenced to 11 years in jailThe US journalist Danny Fenster has been released from prison in military-ruled Myanmar, just days after a closed court sentenced him to 11 years in…
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