Protest is vital when journalists are jailed from Northern Ireland to Turkey
I spent a day this month with Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey, two Northern Irish journalists currently on police bail…
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‘Gilets Jaunes’: Journalist groups push for investigations into apparent police targeting of press at protests in France
Reporters without Borders and the National Union of Journalists have pushed for an investigation into reports of police targeting journalists…
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‘It’s important for the world to say they care’ says Reuters boss as jailed reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo mark one year behind bars
Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney has warned Myanmar’s government “the world is watching” as Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw…
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Amal Clooney warns press ‘under attack like never before’ and singles out Trump for giving ‘green light’ to autocratic regimes
Amal Clooney has used an awards speech to warn that the press is “under attack like never before” and appeared…
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Report showing ‘significant decline’ in global freedom of expression amid ‘strongman’ rise is ‘wake-up call’ to ‘corrosive trend’
There has been a “significant decline” in global freedom of expression in the last three years, driven by a rise…
By Northern Irish journalists left on police bail for months say they feel like ‘pawns in state attack on press freedom’
Two investigative journalists in Northern Ireland have said they feel like “pawns in a state attack on press freedom” as…
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Family of murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia could sue Maltese Government if public inquiry into her death does not go ahead
The family of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has warned it is likely to take legal action unless the Maltese…
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CNN’s Jim Acosta challenges White House over death of Jamal Khashoggi in return after press pass row
CNN’s Jim Acosta challenged the Trump administration over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at his first official White House…
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