Tag: Freedom of press
Hong Kong Foreign Press Club suspends human rights awards
The organization fears to unintentionally break the law ” by crossing ” new red lines established by Beijing. This is the first time in 26 years that the foreign press…
veteran journalist arrested for ‘sedition’
A veteran Hong Kong journalist was arrested by national security police on Monday for “conspiring to commit a seditious publication”. This was reported by a police source and local media.…
journalist Rana Ayyub, critic of Narendra Modi, prevented from leaving the country
Rana Ayyub was supposed to travel to Europe to talk about the various forms of persecution she faces, but the Indian immigration services banned her from boarding the plane on…
At the Assises du journalisme de Tunis, they tell Brut Tunisie and “L’Orient-Le Jour”
From March 17 to 19, the International Conference on Journalism was held in Tunis. The media workshop was there and held out her microphone to Syrine Attia from Brut Tunisie…
a Saturday without press after the exclusion of journalists from the Doha dialogue
Saturday March 19 was a day without press in Chad at the call of the Union of Chadian Journalists. A movement to protest against the exclusion of journalists from the…
State Censorships – Media Chronicle
Media censorship in Russia as in Mali reflects the tensions between States, but also the stakes surrounding credible and trustworthy information. It may not be a coincidence. If Putin’s lock…
“Media Crash”: the hyper-concentration of the media makes its way into the cinema
Released Wednesday in cinemas, Media Crash is a documentary that denounces the stranglehold of French billionaires on the private media and identifies cases of interference with press freedom. The media…
“Justice that is not rendered in public is obscure justice”
The trial for the murder of Father Hamel in his church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray in July 2016 is continuing before the special assize court in Paris. In the middle of the…
three journalists convicted of violating the Secret Service Act imprisoned, then released
In Turkey, three journalists convicted of violating the law on the secret services were imprisoned on Tuesday February 15, before being released a few hours later. They had already spent…
a journalist in pre-trial detention for “insulting the president”
In Turkey, TV journalist Sedef Kabas was remanded in custody for insulting the president when she quoted a Turkish proverb on a TV set. Associations for the defense of journalists…