The Deflagration Accident Disposal Headquarters of Hebei Province, China, issued a statement on Thursday apologizing for blocking media correspondents from reporting on an explosion that occurred in a four-story building located in... Read more »
Irene Khan, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression and opinion, expressed concerns Friday about the escalating number of journalist killings in the Philippines and called for immediate action. Khan... Read more »
The Committee to Protect Journalists’ (CPJ) 2023 prison census shows near-record levels of journalist imprisonment, with Israel jumping from being tied at 24th place to ranking at sixth place amongst the world’s... Read more »
UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Liz Throssell expressed concern Tuesday over the detention of journalists in Kyrgyzstan. This comes after authorities from the State Committee for National Security and the Ministry of... Read more »
The Mizan News Agency reported Monday that the Iranian judiciary had launched a new case against Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi following their release on bail. The two journalists appeared in front... Read more »
Iranian authorities on Sunday released two journalists who spent over a year in prison for covering the death of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian woman whose arrest in Tehran by the morality police... Read more »
State police filed a criminal complaint on Friday against two editors and the managing director of the Hindi daily Prabhat Khabar, alleging forgery and the printing of defamatory material. The complaint follows... Read more »
Amnesty International released a report on Thursday, alleging the targeted use of Pegasus spyware against prominent Indian journalists, rekindling apprehensions about government surveillance and press freedom in the country, following the 2021... Read more »
This article has been updated to include additional information from an article posted by Atmore News on November 2, alleging that the arrested journalists were ordered during their initial appearance to refrain... Read more »
The Tehran Revolutionary Court in Iran sentenced two female journalists who covered the Mahsa Amini protests in 2022 to prison Sunday, according to Mizan News Agency, the judiciary’s media agency. The journalists,... Read more »