(AFP) — Britain, France and Germany insisted Sunday that “light must be shed” on the whereabouts of journalist Jamal Khashoggi as they called for a credible investigation into his disappearance.
A bipartisan group of senators wrote to the White House on Wednesday invoking the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act to demand an investigation into the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and possible sanctions against Saudi Arabia.
Over a dozen Hong Kong lawmakers staged a protest in the legislature on Wednesday, chanting “Protect press freedom!” and holding up placards reading “Free Press, No Persecution,” until security guards escorted them from the chamber.
Ankara – Turkey’s president has demanded Saudi officials prove their claim that missing journalist and Riyadh critic Jamal Khashoggi left the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, as the US called for a thorough probe into his disappearance.
Jean-Claude Juncker has said that press freedom should “have limits” and expressed regret that the EU did not “intervene” in the Brexit referendum to make sure “the right questions” entered the debate.
HONG KONG (AP) – Britain has expressed concern over freedom of speech in its former colony Hong Kong after authorities refused to renew the work visa of a senior editor of the Financial Times.
The strange case of Jamal Khashoggi grew stranger on Thursday, as the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul insisted the missing Washington Post contributor is not detained within its walls, as Turkey has alleged.
The European Union’s Commissioner for Justice and Gender Equality has complained “the bad version of nationalism” is rising and hinted at media regulation to curb the problem, according to POLITICO.
China’s state-run Global Times reported on Friday that officials have drafted a new regulation banning foreign news from distribution in China. The goal is to “prevent Western ideology infiltration and destabilization of China.”
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
Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, detained in Myanmar since December, were sentenced to seven years in prison on Monday for “exposing state secrets” in their reporting on the massacre of Rohingya Muslims.
The Los Angeles Times declined to join a nationwide protest Thursday by newspapers, led by the Boston Globe, against President Donald Trump and his so-called attacks on freedom of the press.
Anti-grooming gang activist and independent journalist Tommy Robinson says he has been purged from Instagram, and fears parent company Facebook Inc. will erase his presence next.
Tommy Robinson has revealed more details of his wrongful imprisonment to American conservative Tucker Carlson, describing how he was sited opposite the prison mosque and admitting he has been diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
52-year-old journalist Shujaat Bukhari — founder and editor of the English-language daily paper Rising Kashmir — was reportedly murdered by three motorcycle-riding gunmen outside his office in the city center of Lal Chowk on Thursday evening.
Venezuela’s National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel) has launched a “sanctioning procedure” against El Nacional, one of the nation’s oldest newspapers, accusing the outlet of “promoting hate” and “contempt against legitimate authorities.”
MPs are set to vote this Wednesday on amendments to the ‘Data Protection Bill,’ advancing a Labour Party-pushed crackdown on press freedom, which critics say will silence and small and online publications and usher in a “new dark age” in the media.
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The UK is wallowing at number 40 out of 180 countries on the 2018 World Press Freedom Index, between Trinidad and Tobago and Burkina Faso, amid a “climate of hostility towards the media”.
Protesters in Nicaragua tore down a monument to the late Venezuelan revolutionary leader Hugo Chávez as protests against the left-wing regime of Daniel Ortega continue to rage across the country.
The government of Zambia expelled Cuba’s ambassador in the country this week over attending an opposition presidential candidate’s rally and declaring his support for changing the government, a move Zambian officials declared “unbecoming of a diplomat.”
“Reining in social media appears to be the trend of governments,” China’s state-run Global Times declared happily in a Sunday editorial. It is not wrong.
Last year saw a steep rise in crackdowns against press freedom in Venezuela, which involved a decline in freedom of expression, censorship, and the closure of independent media outlets, according to a new report.
The American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) barred journalists from a panel on press freedom at its annual policy conference in Washington, DC, on Sunday.
A Turkish court on Friday sentenced six employees of media companies to life in prison for allegedly supporting the failed 2016 coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is in no mood to hear criticism of his military incursion against Syrian Kurds in the Afrin region from the public, media, or opposition lawmakers. Kurdistan24 notes that he promised to “pulverize” dissidents, and his government is doing exactly that with a wave of investigations and arrests.
Sudan has detained a Reuters stringer and a report for Agence France-Presse (AFP) who were covering sometimes violent protests against rising food prices and government austerity measures.
As President Donald Trump’s first year ends with successes in both foreign and domestic policy, Democrats and #NeverTrump Republicans are plagued by “nightmare envy,” since the dictatorship they warned about has failed to materialize.
Turkey has experienced a worsening crackdown on press freedom over the course of 2017, imprisoning the highest number of journalists anywhere in the world.
Sources within the Russian parliament said on Monday that foreign media organizations would soon be required to register as agents of foreign governments, with a possible outright ban to follow. The move is seen as retaliation against the United States for sanctions on Russia over interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Anyone using social media to promote fake news in Ireland could be jailed for 5 years and handed a €10,000 euro fine, according to plans put forward by one of the country’s leading political parties.
Turkish investigative reporter Ahmet Şık, on trial for terror-related charges along with over a dozen writers and editors of his newspaper Cumhuriyet, called Turkey “the biggest journalists’ prison in the world” and refused to plead, instead accusing the judiciary “lynch mob” of silencing descent.
Journalists and staff from a Turkish newspaper staunchly opposed to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are going on trial in Istanbul, accused of aiding terror organisations – a case that has added to concerns over rights and freedoms in Turkey.
The United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, has denounced the demand for Qatar to shut down its Al-Jazeera news network as an “unacceptable” attack on freedom of expression.
Several major French media outlets have claimed Emmanuel Macron’s government is clamping down on press freedom.
The editor-in-chief of a Turkish history magazine is facing nearly five years in prison for publishing a story allegedly featuring some private correspondence written by Latife Hanım, who was briefly married to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
The media’s hypocrisy in blaming Trump for Gianforte is evident in their failure to blame President Barack Obama when Democrats used violence in similar cases.
A state-run news agency in Turkey reported Friday that police had issued warrants for four employees, including the owner and chief website editor, of a secularist publication accused of ties to Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, the latest incident in a string of crackdowns on objective and anti-government media in the country.
Recent crackdowns on press freedoms in countries including Russia and Turkey has been blamed on Brexit by a French-based NGO.
During Friday’s Democratic Weekly Address, Representative Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) said, “it seems like President Trump has spent more time golfing than governing.” And that Trump has “tried to stifle a free press and confuse the truth with fake news
