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.
Tag: Freedom of the Press
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.
Ahead of Biden’s Democracy Summit, China Says: We’re Also a Democracy
Beijing argues that its system represents a distinctive form of democracy, one that has dealt better than the West with challenges like the pandemic.
Raúl Rivero, Disenchanted Poet of the Cuban Revolution, Dies at 75
A leading journalistic voice who broke with the Castro regime, he gained wide recognition for his protests, was jailed as a dissident and went into exile.
U.S. and China Agree to Ease Restrictions on Journalists
The deal tones down a diplomatic confrontation that led Beijing to expel some American reporters during the last year of the Trump administration.
U.S. Journalist Danny Fenster Is Freed From Myanmar Prison
The release was a rare positive development in the country, which has been torn by violence since a February coup.