A former BBC television presenter and freelance journalist in Myanmar was sentenced to three years in prison with hard labor on Wednesday by a military regime court in Yangon for violating the country’s Unlawful Associations Act, bringing her total time in jail to six years, a source in the legal community said
Press freedom in Hong Kong has declined for yet another year, with most local outlets now hesitant to criticize the Chinese government, according to a recent survey by the city’s journalists
When the Taliban ordered female journalists to cover their faces on air, pictures of Khatera Ahmadi were shared throughout the world. Because she feared for the safety of her family, the former TOLOnews journalist has recently left to Pakistan
Several media outlets in Nicaragua have been shut down recently by President Daniel Ortega’s government. An iconic newspaper and one of the nation’s oldest radio stations just closed down
Award-winning Vietnamese journalist Pham Doan Trang is in increasingly poor health as she heads back to court this week to appeal her nine-year jail sentence for “conducting anti-state propaganda,” her lawyer told RFA on Wednesday
The Philippine government imposed a new closure order on Rappler, a digital media outlet based in Manila renowned for its investigative journalism, when Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s presidency took office in June
Beaten, harassed, and finally expelled. Tom Gardner, a correspondent for The Economist, discusses the difficulties in covering the war in Ethiopia with Salem Solomon of VOA
The Court of Appeals upheld a cyber-libel conviction against Maria Ressa, the Nobel Prize-winning chief executive of the Rappler news website, and a former staffer while adding eight months to their maximum prison sentences imposed by a lower court in 2020
One year after the paper was forced to shut down and several senior editors arrested by national security police, former reporters at Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper are still writing the stories the paper might have run, and posting them to social media
Bloomberg journalist Haze Fan has been released on bail, but still faces charges of “endangering state security,” according to the Chinese Embassy in Washington