Tag: Freedom of press
Justice Department declares war on ‘fake news’
The Tunisian Ministry of Justice has decided to declare war on “fake news” and intox, in a press release published jointly with the Ministry of the Interior and that of…
Russia extends detention of ‘Wall Street Journal’ journalist for three months
THE wall street journal expresses its deep disappointment after the decision of a Moscow court, Thursday August 24, to extend by three months the provisional detention of its journalist arrested…
On the front page: back on the kiosks of the Journal du Dimanche
THE JDD whose journalists went on strike” historical for 40 days to oppose the arrival at the head of the editorial staff of Geoffroy Lejeune, a journalist marked on the…
the CEO of national television violently criticized by President Saïed
Kaïs Saïed summoned the CEO of national television, Awatef Daly, on August 4, considering that the order given to the news during the 8 p.m. news was “ not innocent…
Strike at the “Sunday Journal”: Lagardère persists and signs
The editorial staff of the Sunday Journal is starting its 33rd day of strike. The blockage is total, and the latest announcement is not likely to appease it. Geoffroy Lejeune…
The noose tightens around journalists in Iraqi Kurdistan
On Thursday, the criminal court in Erbil increased the sentence of Kurdish journalist and human rights defender Sherwan Sherwani, already imprisoned since 2020 for “undermining national security”, by four years.…
a march to demand the release of journalist Pierre-Louis Opont
Haitian journalists and some members of civil society marched in Pétion-Ville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince to demand the release of Pierre-Louis Opont, former president of the Provisional Electoral Council. 2…
The “Sunday Journal” on strike against the arrival at its head of Geoffroy Lejeune
The Sunday newspaper is not on newsstands this Sunday, June 25 because of a strike by its employees to protest against the arrival at the management of the weekly of…
In Georgia, a famous pro-opposition journalist pardoned by the president
The announcement is a surprise. Nika Gvaramia was sentenced in May 2022 to three and a half years in prison, after a trial deemed political. His imprisonment had been perceived…
freed, journalist Zied el-Heni wants to continue his fight against “the return of the dictatorship”
In Tunisia, the journalist Zied el-Heni was released on June 22, 2023, he who had been placed in police custody after having criticized during a program an article of the…