Headlines- As the military adopts a "offensive and asymmetrical" defense strategy, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), according to its spokesperson Hossein Mohebi, threatens to invade any country that strikes it.
- In an apparent jab at US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, French President Emmanuel Macron criticized world leaders on Wednesday for making "stupid" remarks regarding the rioting and looting that broke out on the fringes of nationwide protests in France on Saturday.
- A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion after a jury decided that the business tricked users in a case related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
- The Vatican said on Wednesday that Pope Leo XIV, 71, will not need any further lung cancer treatment after testing revealed the disease was localized.
- Despite multiple accusations dating back to 2009, an unnamed teenager who alleged she was sexually assaulted at a University of Chicago fraternity house has filed a lawsuit, claiming the fraternity did not take sufficient action to prevent sexual attacks.
Tag: Freedom of Press
DRC: a Closed Radio, One of...
On 12 November, during an interview between RSF, JED and Felix Tshisekedi, on the sidelines of the Paris Peace Forum, the Congolese President supported the idea of a moratorium on the arrests of journalists in the exercise of their duties. functions until the 1996 Press Law is revised
Bangladesh’s Plan Requiring Websites to Register...
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
Despite Rebel Peace, Journalists in Colombia...
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
In Malta, Political Resignations are not...
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
Worrisome Arrest of Vietnamese Freelance Journalist...
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
Philippine Court to Decide Next Month...
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
Press Freedom Under Spotlight at Magnitsky...
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
New Hate Campaign Against Indian Editorialist...
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
Chaos in Bolivia: Clueless and Targeted...
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
Gunman Kills Radio Broadcaster in Central...
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