Headlines- On Monday, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said that airstrikes on Iran have started for the third night in a row.
- On Monday, the UAE Ministry of Defense announced that two Iranian tankers had attacked two national tankers. One Indian crew member was killed and eight others were injured, including four critically, by cruise missiles in the southern lane of the Strait of Hormuz in Omani territorial waters.
- Despite unleashing fresh attacks on Iran and reimposing a blockade of Iranian ports, US President Donald Trump said on Monday that an deal with Tehran to end the Middle East war was still possible.
- IRGC spokesman Hossein Mohebbi said in a statement on Monday that Iran will "continue to exercise our sovereignty and management over the Strait of Hormuz."
- A constitutional amendment was passed by the Hungarian parliament to oust Orban ally President Tamas Sulyok.
Tag: Press Freedom
Myanmar Supreme Court Agrees to Rule...
Rights groups and diplomats have condemned the sentencing of the the reporters, saying their convictions have dealt a blow to freedom of the press in the developing democracy
Turkmenistan Urged To Stop ‘Systematic Harassment’...
Ranked 178th out of 180 countries in RSF’s 2018 World Press Freedom Index, Turkmenistan is a “black hole from which little news and information emerge and where the few independent journalists risk severe persecution,” the Paris-based media watchdog said
Three Uyghur Journalists Among 33 Women...
Chimengul Awut, an editor at the Kashgar Publishing House in the XUAR’s Kashgar (in Chinese, Kashi) prefecture, is one of 14 people who worked at the company to be detained at a political “re-education camp” since last year
Chinese Newspapers Fold Amid Growing Censorship,...
Veteran Beijing journalist Li Xinde said many “market-oriented” papers are meeting the same fate, while papers under direct party or government control are subsidize by a system of compulsory subscriptions
Jailed Reuters Reporters File Appeal With...
Officials are charging journalists under Section 505(b) under Myanmar’s Penal Code and Section 66(d) of the Telecommunications Act, though they should be using the country’s Media Law to pursue complaints, especially for journalists who write about issues related to the government or the military
CPJ Denounces Iranian Journalist’s ‘Unacceptable’ Prison...
Soltani was first arrested over his reporting on municipal land deals in September 2016, after former Tehran Mayor Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf and municipal council chairman Mehdi Chamran filed a lawsuit against him
On Twitter Jounalists Condemn the Murder...
Twitter is abuzz condemning the brutal murder of investigative journalist and private investigator Ahmed Hussein-Suale at Madina, Ghana. On January 16, two unknown assailants shot him dead when he was driving a car
Iranian Anchor Woman’s Arrest Gets Twitter...
well known American anchorwoman on Iranian state television Press TV’s English language service Marzieh Hashemi was arrested by FBI after arriving at America’s St. Louis Lambert International Airport on Sunday
Khodorkovsky Investigators Say Evidence Links Vagner...
Martin was recommended to the journalists by Russian journalist Kirill Romanovsky, a correspondent with the FAN news agency, which is sponsored by Prigozhin
A Pakistani American Startup Fighting Media...
From Our Archive According to the latest report by the Committee to Protect Journalists in Pakistan, fatal violence against journalists has declined, but fear and self-censorship have grown. In this era, five Pakistani American students at Harvard University grown. In this era, five Pakistani American students at Harvard University have created a startup that challenges censorship …
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