Operators of Bangladeshi online news portals expressed fears Friday their websites could go dark after the nation’s information minister announced that they must register with the government to maintain coverage
Three years had passed since the Colombian government signed a peace agreement with the revolutionary armed forces FARC. After years of conflict, Colombians thought this agreement would change the country for the better. Nevertheless, the process is still ongoing and a new wave of violence against local leaders and journalists is erupting in different parts of the country
One of the suspects, Melvin Theuma, has received a presidential pardon in exchange for information and is expected to testify before a magistrate on 29 November. Three henchmen, Alfred Degiorgio, George Degiorgio, and Vincent Muscat, also remain in detention following their arrest on 4 December 2017, without having been tried yet
RSF had made it one of his “heroes of information” five years ago. Independent journalist Pham Chi Dung saw the police arrive at his home in Ho Chi Minh City yesterday, Thursday, November 21, who notified him of the accusation of “propaganda against the state”, to use the expression catches – all enshrined in Article 117 of the Vietnamese Penal Code
Fifty-eight people, including 32 journalists and media workers, died on Nov. 23, 2009, in what had been described as the world’s biggest single-day killing of members of the press. Almost 100 people have been jailed and charged with murder, but none have been convicted
The Ukrainian journalist Oleg Sentsov, who was jailed in Russia for reporting on the country’s illegal annexation of Crimea, and murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi were among those honored at the recent Magnitsky Awards ceremony in London
All started with a sibylline message posted on Twitter on November 8: journalist Rana Ayyub , editorialist at the Washington Post , wrote that she “hopes that [his] country will not disappoint . ” She was referring to a decision that the Supreme Court had to make the following day, about the site of Ayodhya – a city in northern India that has crystallized, for at least thirty years, the passions between Hindus and Muslims
A Unitel TV station was ransacked in El Alto , a neighboring capital city of La Paz, on 9 November. On the same day, the journalists and collaborators of the public media Bolivia TV and Radio Red Patria Nueva had to abandon the building that houses their editorial staff, under the constraint of demonstrators who managed to interrupt the broadcast of the broadcast signal. Th
Dindo Generoso, a broadcaster with dyE 96.7 radio in Dumaguete city, was killed while driving to the station to host a morning news program, police said
Huang was arrested on October 17 in his home province of Guangdong on charges of “stirring up quarrels and causing unrest” , a vague motive often used by the regime against journalists that can be worth up to ten years. from prison