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.
Tag: Freedom of the Press
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.
RTHK’s Swift Turn From Maverick Voice to Official Mouthpiece
RTHK has often set the news agenda with its aggressive coverage of the city. But a Beijing clampdown has changed that, with pro-China coverage filling the void.
Danny Fenster, U.S. Journalist in Myanmar, Gets 11 Years in Jail
Danny Fenster was given the toughest possible sentence on three charges, in a signal that the country’s military rulers would not bow to international pressure.
Zuo Fang, a Founder of China’s Southern Weekly, is Dead
When he helped start Southern Weekly, he charted a course for a freer era for the country’s press, which later became increasingly constrained by Beijing.