How attacks on the media have grown around the world during pandemic
“They are breaking into my home. Alert the world!” This was the last tweet that Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin’ono managed…
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Charges dropped against Kent protest photographer as Culture Sec grilled on press freedom
Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has dodged questions about press freedom concerns in the UK after a photographer was arrested and…
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Police to pay out £875,000 after settling case over journalist arrests
Police have agreed to pay significant damages to two journalists inappropriately arrested over material that appeared in a documentary on…
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Study reveals press freedom falling off the news agenda despite worsening global picture
News coverage and Google searches of press freedom issues have fallen over the past 16 years, according to a new…
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1,400 days in prison for being a journalist: Al Jazeera makes renewed plea for Egypt to release Mahmoud Hussein
The head of news giant Al Jazeera has made a renewed plea for the release of journalist Mahmoud Hussein who,…
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Journalists increasingly likely to be attacked covering protests, UN warns
Violence, arrests and harassment against journalists covering protests, mostly by police and other authority figures but sometimes by protesters, has…
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Lawyers tell MoD ‘blacklisting’ of journalists is breach of European Convention on Human Rights
Lawyers have told the Ministry of Defence its decision to stop responding to enquiries from a foreign affairs news website…
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Ex-Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger: ‘Surprising more can’t see Assange case is worrying for all journalists’
Former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger has said the ongoing US extradition case against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is “disturbing” and…
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