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#HoldTheLine Coalition calls for criminal tax charge to be dropped as Maria Ressa returns to court

20.07.2020 In headlines now, News

The #HoldTheLine Coalition  demands the Philippines authorities drop a barrage of bogus tax and foreign ownership cases against internationally celebrated journalist Maria Ressa and Rappler – the news organisation she founded.

Released Ugandan journalist says not yet safe

25.02.2018 In headlines now, News

By Linus Atarah The Ugandan investigative journalist who was abducted and detained last week due to a story he wrote about circumstances surrounding a Finnish man’s death in capital city Kampala says he still fears for his personal safety even after being released from military custody earlier this week.

Taking journalism from the hands of corporations

16.10.2017 In headlines now, News

Linus Atarah P.Sainath is a widely known Indian writer and journalist, author of the worldwide acclaimed, book, Everybody Loves a Good drought, for which he travelled widely all over rural India. Later he worked as the Rural Editor of The Hindu newspaper. He observed that all the rich diversity of life in the rural area,Read More

UJF: Ayla Albayrak’s conviction by Turkish court must be overturned

11.10.2017 In headlines now, News

A Turkish court has sentenced Wall Street Journal reporter Ayla Albayrak, a dual citizen of Finland and Turkey, to jail for two years and one month for working in the Kurdish region of Turkey. According to the verdict, Albayrak is guilty of having produced terrorist propaganda in an article she wrote that was published byRead More

Make media core ethical values central focus when telling migrants’ story

16.08.2017 In headlines now, News

Linus Atarah Is Europe facing a refugee crisis? The issue is debatable. The notion of crisis provides a-broken-dam scenario of the EU overwhelmed by huge numbers of refugees that began arriving at its shores since 2015. But critics have disputed that claim. They point out that the EU could have invoked the Temporary Protection DirectiveRead More

Journalists assaulted covering Krasnodar Kray farmer’s protest

10.04.2017 In headlines now, News

By Oxana Chelysheva On March 28, 2017 two journalists with Moscow office of Liberty Radio were assaulted in the town of Kropotkin of Krasnodar Kray. Sergey Khazov-Kassia and Andrey Kostyanov, both staff journalists with Liberty Radio, had arrived in Kropotkin the day before. They were performing their professional duties having plans to shoot a videoRead More

Novaya Gazeta journalist threatened with expulsion to Uzbekistan

21.03.2017 In headlines now, News

In the morning of March 17 Moscow police detained uzbek journalist Khudoberdi Nurmatov. He has been working as a correspondent with the Novaya Gazeta, and is now threatened with extradition to Uzbekistan, where he could be tortured.

Protecting journalist sources should be guaranteed by international standards

17.05.2016 News

Linus Atarah It all began 250 years ago in 1766 in the territory of present day Sweden and Finland – Finland was part of Sweden until 1809. The first Freedom of Information Act was enacted. It took another 200 years for the United States to pass a similar law in 1966 – the wheels ofRead More

Iran: three journalists face heavy jail sentences

12.05.2016 News

Three Iranian journalists who were arrested in November 2015 have been handed long jail sentences after the court in Tehran found them guilty of charges including spreading propaganda against the ruling system, conspiring against officials and insulting authorities.   Ehsan Mazandarani, editor-in-chief of newspaper Farhikhtegan, was sentenced to 7 years in jail while Iran newspaper’sRead More

A very bad day for freedom of speech in Norway, says Barents Press International

29.09.2015 News

The chief editor of BarentsObserver fired over disloyalty to the owner. Basic journalistic values are being threatened also in Norway, say Barents Press journalists.