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IFJ demands release of filmmaker Du Bin, asks China to cease suppression o
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Brussels, [Belgium], December 22 (ANI): International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) on Monday urged China to release Chinese journalist and filmmaker Du Bin and called on authorities to cease their suppression of press freedom and journalist independence.
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Hong Kong court dismisses petition seeking to label police treatment of sc
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Hong Kong [China], December 21 (ANI): Hong Kong's High Court on Monday threw out a bid from the area's oldest journalists' union which sought to formally label the police force's treatment of industry workers during last year's anti-government protests as unconstitutional.
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Afghanistan journalist Rahmatullah Nikzad killed in Ghazni Province
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Kabul [Afghanistan], December 21 (ANI): Afghanistan journalist Rahmatullah Nikzad, also the head of journalists' union in Ghazni province, has been killed in an armed attack on Monday evening.
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Two journalists arrested for extorting money from salon owner in Mumbai
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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 18 (ANI): Two journalists were arrested by police for allegedly extorting money from a salon and spa owner in Goregaon.
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Pak journalists' union urge HC to strike down 'unconstitutional' social me
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Islamabad [Pakistan], December 18 (ANI): Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists has urged the Islamabad High Court to strike down the "unconstitutional" Removal and Blocking of Unlawful Online Content (Procedure, Oversight and Safeguards), Rules 2020.
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China worst offender in record-breaking year for jailing of journalists am
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [China], December 16 (ANI): China, which has arrested several journalists for their coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, is the world's worst jailer for the second year in a row, according to a report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an independent press freedom advocacy
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UN Chief appalled by record number of jailed journalists in 2020
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New York [US], December 16 (ANI/Sputnik): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was appalled by the findings of a new report by an international watchdog that the number of imprisoned journalists hit a new high this year, United Nations spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said in a press briefing
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There's an urgent need to re-evaluate China, CCP over human rights violati
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Beijing [China], December 15 (ANI): Numerous academics, journalists and politicians have been arrested and detained for 'anti-patriotic activities' since China imposed a national security law in Hong Kong earlier this year, yet the matter has attracted little comment from the international c
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138 journalists killed in Pakistan since 1990
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Islamabad [Pakistan], December 12 (ANI): The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) in a 'White Paper on Global Journalism' listed five countries, including Pakistan as the 'Most Dangerous Countries for Practice of Journalism in the World' with 138 journalists being killed in Pakista
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Autocratic Erdogan may soon be called by Biden to pay a price
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Nicosia [Cyprus], December 7 (ANI): Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is becoming increasingly autocratic, reversing the secularist reforms of the founder of modern Republic of Turkey Kemal Ataturk, sends to jail thousands of journalists, writers, academics and people expressing opp
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Watchdog condemns incarceration of Hong Kong media tycoon
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Brussels [Belgium], December 5 (ANI): The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) on Friday condemned the arrest and imprisonment of Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai after he was denied bail on fraud charges.
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Kerala journalist's arrest matter of personal liberty: Kapil Sibal argues
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New Delhi [India], December 2 (ANI): Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for the Kerala Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ), on Wednesday argued before the Supreme Court that the case involving the arrest of Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan is a "matter of personal liberty" and he should
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