This week, Julian Assange, the founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, launched a last-ditch legal bid to prevent being extradited to the United States from Britain on espionage charges relating to the publication of thousands of stolen military and diplomatic cables.
Hong Kong’s national security police have arrested six people in connection with a raid on a stall at a Lunar New Year market they said had been selling “seditious publications” inciting people to overthrow the government.
Analysts say that growing threats and acts of violence against Colombian journalists are creating fear among the country’s media professionals.
Despite coming from a family of Cuban revolutionaries, Abraham Jiménez Enoa chose to report the truth rather than live that life.He is currently living in exile, just as many other independent voices from Cuba
Taiwanese author Lung Yingtai has responded to the banning of her books in Chinese schools, saying she is honored to have been targeted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s ever-widening program of censorship
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
Imprisoned Vietnamese independent journalist and activist Pham Doan Trang has been selected as one of this year’s International Press Freedom Award winners by U.S.-based media watchdog the Committee to Protect Journalists
Press advocates and relatives of journalist Hasibur Rahman Rubel are calling on authorities to swiftly investigate his death earlier this month – the fourth Bangladeshi reporter to die under suspicious circumstances this year
Amnesty International said that President Joe Biden must keep his promise to place human rights at the forefront of his first trip to the Middle East and North Africa since taking office and exert all of his influence to push for rapid and significant change
Chinese-American author Geling Yan has hit out at the companies involved in releasing a Zhang Yimou film based on one of her novels outside China without crediting her