„Philippine Nobel prize winner Maria Ressa acquitted of tax charges“
Good news! #MariaRessa #Rappler #PressFreedom

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/12/philippine-nobel-prize-winner-maria-ressa-acquitted-of-tax-charges?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I'd like to see this.

https://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article67672

"The Killing of a Journalist is a chilling inquiry into the brutal murders of Slovak investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová. With investigative rigour, Matt Sarnecki makes his feature directorial debut by drawing upon his background reporting in corruption and organized crime".

#documentary #film #InvestigativeJournalism #PressFreedom #Slovakia #OrganisedCrime #Press

Is India Still a Democracy? Political Prisoners Tell Their Stories

During the three-year-long trial against Professor GN Saibaba and the other men, which ran from 2014 to 2017, the prosecution produced no real evidence. Of 23 witnesses presented before the court by the prosecution, 22 were police officers. The only civilian witness retracted his confession after claiming it resulted from torture. While Saibaba’s health deteriorated in prison, Rahi, the social activist and journalist, alleged that he, Mishra, Narote, and Mahesh Tirki were tortured in custody by investigating officer Suhas Bawache.

https://time.com/6305728/voices-of-political-prisoners-from-authoritarian-india/

#PoliticalPrisoners #GNSaibaba #activism #dissent #HumanRights #TribalRights #adivasis #UAPA #DraconianLaws #environment #EcoDestruction #authoritarianism #PressFreedom #FalseCases #torture #StateViolence #UnionGovt #india #books #bookstodon #SuchitraVijayan #FrancescaRecchia

Super enjoyed reading about Defector's success this year, they are the greatest.

https://defector.com/three-years-of-defector

#journalism #independence #pressfreedom

Together with 20 organisations, we call on international bodies to hold #Russia accountable for deliberately targeting #journalists in #Ukraine, a war crime under international law.

#DefendDemocracy #PressFreedom #journalism

https://www.womeninjournalism.org/threats-all/ukraine-cfwij-and-20-international-organizations-call-for-an-end-to-russian-war-crimes-against-journalists-in-ukraine

“So it’s a complete and total sham, which is, in my view, simply more evidence that this so-called search was just a pretense to intimidate the newspaper,” Rhodes said.

Kansas newspaper's lawyer says police didn't follow warrant in last month's newsroom search | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/kansas-newspaper-raid-marion-county-first-amendment-ea21fc31ba893292c0d41a266d076a3f #fascism #pressfreedom #firstamendment

Cross-party delegation of Australian politicians to travel to US in attempt to build momentum against extraditing WikiLeaks founder.
Six Australian politicians are expected to focus on freedom-of-speech arguments when they fly to Washington DC later this month to warn against extraditing the WikiLeaks founder from the UK.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/sep/05/australian-mps-to-lobby-us-to-drop-julian-assange-prosecution-or-risk-very-dangerous-precedent-for-russia-and-china
#PressFreedom #HumanRights #Journalism #WikiLeaks #Assange

#USA #Journalism #PressFreedom: "When police applied for a warrant to raid the Marion County Record, they didn’t bother mentioning the Privacy Protection Act of 1980 — a federal law that largely bans newsroom seizures. They claimed afterwards that they knew about the PPA but didn’t think it applied (we have our doubts). And the judge who issued the warrant was apparently clueless about the law.

Authorities in Marion are far from the only ones to ignore the PPA. We noted earlier this year that police in Asheville, North Carolina, neglected to mention it when they applied for a warrant to search a journalist’s phone. And federal prosecutors are struggling to explain how the FBI raid of journalist Tim Burke’s Florida home could have complied with the PPA."

https://freedom.press/news/new-guide-helps-journalists-know-their-rights-when-police-come-knocking/

Pretty exciting to see we have close to 500 registrants for our webinar on how to cover environmental defenders @mongabay.

If you want to join a panel of 4 experts talk about this important subject. Come join us here or on LinkedIn, September 7th at 1pm UTC.
#Webinar #Journalism #Environment #PressFreedom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa4AWbWXs3w

FIR in Manipur against Editors Guild for report on media coverage of conflict

The police have invoked Section 66A of the Information and Technology Act, despite the provision having been struck down by the Supreme Court in 2015.

https://scroll.in/latest/1055363/fir-in-manipur-against-editors-guild-for-report-on-media-coverage-of-conflict

#manipur #ManipurPolice #EditorsGuildOfIndia #ITAct #section66a #SupremeCourt #PressFreedom #ManipurViolence #media #meiteis #kukis #BJP #india

J&K Police objects to BBC article on Kashmir media situation, says it has right to take legal action

The article titled ‘Any story could be your last – India’s crackdown on Kashmir press’ was published on Friday.

https://scroll.in/latest/1055315/j-k-police-objects-to-bbc-article-on-kashmiri-journalists-says-it-has-right-to-take-legal-action

#kashmir #JKPolice #BBC #PressFreedom #media #journalism #AsifSultan #TheKashmirWalla #censorship #UAPA #SIA #DraconianLaws #india

Marion mayor defends police in newspaper raid: ‘I’m not sure exactly what they did wrong’

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#MarionKansas #MarionKS #Marion #PressFreedom #Kansas #Midwest #KS #KSPol #WichitaKS #WichitaKansas #IndependentJournalism

Read more at: https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article278775244.html#storylink=cpy
https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article278775244.html?taid=64f38ae825b3120001dad921

Kashmiri
Journalists told to fear
Reporting risks all too real
Cracking down, silencing truth
Oppression

#kashmir #india #pressfreedom #journalism #cinquain #poetry

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-66155796

The X bans Democracy Watch News! #PressFreedom X, Twitter, has suspended @dwatchnews without cause, claiming an unspecified violation of their TOS, terms of service. We have appealed this capricious action and complained to @support as well. We know of no violations and comply with the TOS

"Over the past decade, all of India has witnessed a serious decline in press freedom, which is reflected in global rankings, cases against journalists and raids against media houses. But the degree of the decline in Kashmir is extreme - we have found evidence that press freedom has been all but eroded here"
BBC report on vanished press freedom in #Kashmir
#India #PressFreedom #Journalism #BJP #Fascism
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-66155796

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A judge told Kansas authorities to destroy electronic copies of newspaper's files taken during raid | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/kansas-newspaper-raid-first-amendment-f8f375dbf48b93fc15c12893b8b49f37 #pressfreedom #marioncountyrecord #firstamendment #kansas

#assange #humanrights #virtualprotest #pressfreedom The Don’t Extradite Assange Campaign is launching the first ever virtual political rally to prevent the WikiLeaks founder from being sent to the US where he could face a 175 year jail sentence for journalistic activities.

The event will be staged in a virtual auditorium looking like the Royal Courts of Justice in London where Assange is set to face his final appeal in the UK court system. The rally aims to build for a real life protest at the same venue when the court date is announced.

The virtual rally will be happening in the Wistaverse, the first platform dedicated to virtual protests, located in the Sandbox.

https://dontextraditeassange.com/events/assange-campaign-launches-first-ever-virtual-political-rally-2/

Read in our latest newsletter (and subscribe):

- Beyond Marion, here is a list of #pressfreedom violations you may have missed

- A guide to press freedom op-eds

- Victims’ rights law shouldn’t shield police from scrutiny

And more.. https://mailchi.mp/freedom.press/press-freedom-threats-beyond-marion?e=b06faa8c70

In Modi’s India, the press is more imperilled than ever

The hounding of media website NewsClick is a form of McCarthyism, writes a former editor of the Hindu.

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/62676/modi-india-newsclick-press-freedom

#NewsClick #PressFreedom #McCarthyism #NarendraModi #BJP #democracy #dissent #EnforcementDirectorate #ED #journalism #media #TheNewYorkTimes #NYT #hindutva #india