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U-turn over those who worked for British media follows outcry from newspapers and broadcastersThe foreign secretary has agreed to consider allowing Afghan journalists who worked for the British to flee to the UK if their lives are endangered by the res…
Read MoreIndia’s only all-women news organisation is the subject of an award-winning documentary. The film-makers explain their inspiring courage and energyA woman explains how a group of four men repeatedly broke into her house and raped her; six times so far….
Read MoreReporters 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…
Read MoreNewspaper’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…
Read MoreMillion 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…
Read MoreAnalysis: 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…
Read MoreCarrie Lam denies arrest of senior editorial figures at pro-democracy paper and seizure of its assets was an attack on press freedomHong Kong’s leader, Carrie Lam, has refused to clarify how journalists can avoid breaking the vaguely defined national s…
Read MoreApple 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 …
Read MoreRyan Law among five directors detained under national security legislation imposed by BeijingHong Kong’s national security police have arrested the editor-in-chief and four other directors of the Apple Daily newspaper in early morning raids involving h…
Read MoreSpokesperson dismisses Wall Street Journal claims based on ‘previously undisclosed’ intelligenceCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChina has vehemently denied a Wall Street Journal report citing US intelligence materials that s…
Read MoreA roundup of the coverage on struggles for human rights and freedoms, from Myanmar to Peru Continue reading…
Read MoreOur Delhi correspondents pay tribute to the Indian journalist and Guardian news assistant, who has died of CovidEvery Guardian south Asia correspondent over the past decade can remember the first time they met Kakoli Bhattacharya. A smart, brilliant an…
Read MoreCase against RTHK producer Bao Choy has become central to Hong Kong authorities’ press clampdownAn award-winning Hong Kong news producer has been found guilty of criminal conduct after she accessed a public database while investigating an attack at a c…
Read MoreColourised images from Tuol Sleng prison during 1970s genocide were manipulated, media group saysCambodia has condemned images published by Vice media group that featured victims of the Khmer Rouge genocide, colourised and with some apparently edited t…
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…
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