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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...