Swedish police in the city of Uppsala detained a reporter from the Hungarian television station HÍRTV this week for two hours after he filmed a report from in front of a local police station.
BEIJING (AP) – The European Union on Saturday called on China to reverse its ban on the BBC World News television channel imposed in apparent retaliation for Britain’s pulling of the license of state-owned Chinese broadcaster CGTN.
(AFP) — A Hong Kong internet radio host was arrested on Sunday under a little-used colonial era sedition law that authorities have begun to wield against Beijing’s critics.
At least 81 people were arrested as mass protests and riots broke out on the streets of Paris against a proposed law that would criminalise the filming of police in France.
French president Emmanuel Macron has complained that the mainstream media appear to be “legitimising” a spate of radical Islamic terror attacks against his country by claiming it is “racist and Islamophobic”.
Police in London arrested 190 anti-lockdown protesters at the so-called ‘Million Mask March’ against the second national lockdown in England.
One of the suspects currently on trial in connection to the Charlie Hebdo attacks in January of 2015 is said to have threatened a female police officer in court.
Conservative commentator Darren Grimes is being investigated by police on suspicion of “stirring up racial hatred” because of something that his podcast guest, historian David Starkey, said in an interview.
Four journalists covering the protests and riots in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, Thursday night say that police violently detained and/or arrested them. The incident occurred in close proximity to the arrest and injury of Tracy Cole, the mother of the Wisconsin teen shot by police that led to protests, riots, and looting in the suburban-Milwaukee community.
LONDON (AP) — Environmental activists have blockaded two British printing plants, disrupting the distribution of several national newspapers on Saturday.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s party is promoting a legislative bill this week seeking to crack down on citizen’s right to post freely on social media, forcing companies to censor or face fines and restrictions.
HELSINKI (AP) – Swedish police say they have identified a body found late last month in a river as that of missing Pakistani journalist Sajid Hussain.
At a protest against the extradition of Julian Assange celebrities including Vivienne Westwood, Brian Eno and Roger Waters joined activists and supporters of Mr Assange to march from the Australia High Commission to Parliament Square to decry what they believe
The Canadian Heritage Minister has u-turned on comments suggesting media organisations would be forced to be licenced after a huge backlash.
Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault has stated that news websites, along with social media companies, could be forced to obtain government licences to operate in Canada.
The archbishop of Managua demanded Sunday that the Ortega government lift a block on paper and other raw materials from the opposition newspaper La Prensa.
LONDON (AP) – The estranged father of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex could be called as a defence witness in her lawsuit against the Mail on Sunday newspaper, court papers reveal.
Protestors gathered outside Julian Assange’s extradition hearing, condemning the trial as a breach of press freedoms.
In pursuing a partisan case for impeachment, Democrats have also violated several cherished amendments in the Bill of Rights.
CNN political analyst April Ryan is under fire over a video purportedly showing a man identified as a security guard getting into a physical altercation with a local news editor who was covering an event that featured her as the keynote speaker.
LONDON (AP) – A British investigation into the leaking of confidential diplomatic memos is raising press freedom issues with a police warning that UK media might face a criminal inquiry if leaked documents are published.
Tommy Robinson has reportedly been transferred to Belmarsh prison, a maximum security facility once described in UK media as “a jihadi training camp”.
Tommy Robinson has been re-sentenced to nine months in prison following his reconviction for contempt of court.
A journalist accused Indian Government Railway Police (GRP) force officers in Uttar Pradesh province of urinating in his mouth after they battered and arrested him when he was covering a derailment on Tuesday night.
Every reporter working for the political section of Russia’s Kommersant daily business newspaper resigned on Monday to show their solidarity with two veteran journalists forced out of their jobs by political pressure. Over 200 Kommersant employees signed an open letter the same day, denouncing the “obvious clampdown on free speech in Russia.”
ROME — “I want to tell you how much I respect your work, the Church respects it, even when you touch a sore point, and the sore point may be in the ecclesial community,” Pope Francis told journalists Saturday.
Freedom of expression, whether in speech or in the press, is a key indicator of a country’s health, Pope Francis told journalists in the Vatican Saturday.
Ten years ago, in Righteous Indignation, Andrew Breitbart identified what he called the “Democrat-media complex.” Levin takes apart the complex itself and explains both how and why it operates the way it does.
Daniel Ortega’s communist regime in Nicaragua is responsible for “gross human rights violations” and continues to act with impunity amid a widespread popular uprising, a report the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Organization of American States (OAS) revealed Tuesday.
The Committee to Protect Journalists published its annual report on imprisoned journalists on Thursday, and perennial champion Turkey once again leads the league.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks discussed the lawsuit over the revocation of CNN Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta’s press pass and argued that both the White House’s position and “The other extreme, that anybody should have
We’re writing up rules and regulations,” Trump said, referring to how he wants reporters to conduct themselves in the White House.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told an audience Tuesday that other world leaders appeared to fear their domestic media.
During a speech on Friday, former President Obama stated that defending freedom of the press shouldn’t be a partisan issue, and that while he complained about Fox News, “you never heard me threaten to shut them down or call them
Encino, California, resident Robert D. Chain was taken into custody on charges of “making threatening communications in interstate commerce,” after alleged threats against the Boston Globe.
“If you’d like, you can stay. If you’d like, you can leave,” President Trump told reporters. “Freedom of the press,” he added.
Donald Trump’s administration intervened on behalf of anti-grooming gangs campaigner Tommy Robinson and expressed concerns over his safety to Britain’s ambassador to the U.S., sources claim.
President Donald Trump suggested Friday that it was “terrific” that the Department of Justice had caught senate aide James Wolfe leaking classified information to the media.
The Russian presidential race is heating up about as much as it’s going to, given the almost inevitable victory of incumbent President Vladimir Putin, but the country’s top independent pollster announced on Tuesday that it will no longer publish surveys about the contest due to fears it will be attacked by officials for “meddling.”
The Committee to Protect Journalists credited President Donald Trump with the “Overall Achievement in Undermining Global Press Freedom” in its “Press Oppressors” awards Monday.
