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Thailand: Censorship laws stifle criticism of government vaccine rollout

Citizens and journalists may face criminal prosecution under Thailand’s censorship laws for criticising the government’s AstraZeneca vaccine rollout,…

India: Criminal investigation against three journalists and The Wire

Uttar Pradesh police initiated a criminal investigation against independent news- website The Wire and three journalists Rana Ayyub, Saba Naqvi, and…

Pakistan: Report highlights serious flaws in Mujahid murder investigation

An investigation by media freedom organizations has highlighted the police investigation failures following the murder of senior journalist Zubair…

Hong Kong: Five Apple Daily executives arrested in massive police raid

Hong Kong police raided the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily and arrested five senior executives on June 17. All were charged under the…

India: Television journalist dies under mysterious circumstances

Sulabh Srivastava, a journalist affiliated with the private television channel ABP News, died a day after he filed complaints to Uttar Pradesh Police…

Myanmar: Court releases one of two detained US journalists

A Myanmar court dismissed the case against US journalist, Nathan Maung, freeing him after he was detained in March. The International Federation of…

Japan: Foreign journalists to be tracked by GPS at Tokyo Olympics

The president of the Tokyo Olympics, Seiko Hashimoto, announced on June 8 that international journalists will be tracked by GPS while they are in…

Taiwan: Unions call for vaccination of media workers after journalist death

Unions urged the Central Epidemic Command Centre (CECC) to consider journalists as frontline workers and be given vaccinations after the death of Next…

Hong Kong: Human rights concerns remain after anniversary of menacing SIM card registration program

A year on from the introduction of legislation on the SIM Card Registration Programme (SCRP), human rights concerns still remain imminent. The…

Malaysia: Media vaccinations urged so journalists can carry out work safely

Malaysia’s national journalist union is urging media companies to put journalist safety as a priority as the country continues to face huge numbers of…

Bangladesh: Journalist attacked at a railway station protest

Shahadat Hossain, a journalist for the Bengali language daily newspaper, Prothom Alo, was attacked on June 1 while reporting on a protest in…

Indonesia: Global media organisations condemn government internet regulation

Global media organisations sent a joint letter to Indonesia’s minister of Communication and Information Technology urging him to repeal Ministerial…

India: Supreme Court quashes FIR against journalist

The Supreme Court on May 27 quashed the First Information Report (FIR) against senior journalist, Vinod Dua, that accused him of spreading false…

Afghanistan: Ariana News journalist killed in targeted explosion

Mina Khairi, a 27-year-old presenter of Ariana News, who was seriously injured in targeted explosion on June 3 in Kabul, later died in hospital the…

Pakistan: Proposed media ordinance rejected by media stakeholders

Pakistani media stakeholders are calling on the Pakistan government to withdraw a proposed Pakistan Media Regularity Authority (PMDA) ordinance that…

Thailand: Myanmar journalists jailed for seven months for illegal entry to Thailand

Three journalists from the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) were sentenced to seven months in jail and fined for entering Thailand illegally on May 28.…

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