Your Daily Digest of Global Stories
London- Prince Harry claimed a major victory on Wednesday as Rupert Murdoch’s UK tabloid made an unprecedented apology for intruding into his life for decades and agreed to pay substantial damages to settle his privacy invasion lawsuit. The news group’s newspapers issued a “full and unequivocal apology to the Duke of Sussex for this serious…
Six Kurdish journalists have been detained in Turkey on charges of being members of a “terrorist organization” and their lawyers have not provided any information. Journalists and activists say opposition media outlets are being targeted more and more every day. Click here for full story in Kurdish, Source link
China, Israel and Myanmar are among the leading countries jailing journalists, according to a new report. Data from the Committee to Protect Journalists shows that at least 361 journalists globally have been detained because of their work. Christina Caicedo Smit has more. Liam Scott contributed. Source link
Damascus, Syria – The mother of Austin Tice, the American journalist who was captured while on a reporting trip to Syria in August 2012, arrived in Damascus to intensify the search for her son and said she hoped to be able to take him home. Tice, who worked as a freelance reporter for The Washington…
Anthony Belanger, secretary general of the International Federation of Journalists, told VOA that Iran is “repressive of press freedom”, and urged foreign journalists to be “as cautious as possible” when traveling to countries like Iran. Belanger spoke on Wednesday, the day after Italian journalist Cecilia Sala was released from detention in Iran and returned to…
Italian journalist Cecilia Sala was released from an Iranian prison on Wednesday and was returning home, the office of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said. His release came three weeks after he was detained in Tehran while working on a journalist visa. Iran accused Salah of “violating the law of the Islamic Republic of Iran”….
Paris- France remembers victims of Tuesday’s deadly attack charlie hebdo The satirical magazine that 10 years ago sparked a series of Islamist terrorist attacks on the country and sparked a debate over press freedom that continues to this day. Two masked gunmen linked to al Qaeda with assault rifles stormed the offices of charlie hebdo…
Rome- Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Saturday that efforts to free Italian journalist Cecilia Sala from prison in Iran are “complicated.” Salah was detained by police in Tehran on December 19 and, according to his employer, is being held in the city’s notorious Evin prison. “We are trying to resolve a complex issue and…
Two journalists were killed and seven others were injured in a deadly gang attack in Haiti earlier this week, underscoring the dangers journalists face in a country that has been plagued by gang violence for years. Earlier, at least two journalists – including one working with Voice of America – were shot by armed men…
Lusaka – Media freedom is under attack in Zambia, a new report says. The report said that more than 60 percent of those surveyed believe that the media cannot function due to frequent incidents of harassment and intimidation by journalists and bloggers. The Media Institute of Southern Africa, or MISA, launched its report on December…
