Citizen News, a small but aggressive online publication, is the latest outlet to fold amid relentless pressure from the authorities.
Tag: Freedom of the Press
In 2021, We Were There: The Year’s 14 Most Popular Dispatches
Not even a pandemic, wars or autocrats could prevent our correspondents from seeking out secrets and surprises to share with readers. They sent dispatches from 40 countries on six continents.
Hong Kong Police Raid Stand News and Arrest Staff
Six current or former senior staff members of Stand News were arrested on suspicion of conspiring to publish seditious material. More than 200 officers raided the news site’s headquarters.
Hong Kong Police Raid Stand News and Arrest Staff
Those arrested, including current and former senior staff members of Stand News, were accused of conspiring to publish seditious material. The news site announced it would shut down immediately.
‘I Didn’t Look Like a Human’: Journalist Tells of Myanmar Torture
When Ko Aung Kyaw erased his cellphone contacts to protect his sources, he knew his interrogators would make him pay a horrific price. He did it anyway.
Hu Xijin, Chief of China’s Global Times, Will Retire
Mr. Hu, editor of the Communist Party tabloid Global Times, set the tone for a new generation of Chinese pundits with his flair for verbal combat.
Nobel-Winning Journalists Denounce War Talk and Online ‘Toxic Sludge’
At an awards ceremony in Oslo, Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitri A. Muratov of Russia called for peace, democratic renewal and support for a free press.
U.K. Court Rules Julian Assange Can Be Extradited to U.S.
The WikiLeaks founder will seek to appeal. But if the extradition goes ahead, he would face espionage charges that could put him in prison for decades.
As Muratov Accepts Nobel, Legacy of His Russian Predecessors Recedes
Dmitri A. Muratov is only the third Russian to win the Nobel Peace Prize, after Andrei D. Sakharov and Mikhail S. Gorbachev. The openness they championed is under assault.
Jailed Journalists Reach Record High for Sixth Year in 2021
The Committee to Protect Journalists, a press freedom monitoring group, said 293 journalists were behind bars this year, more than a quarter of them in China.