Pakistan: Two Pakistani journalists arrested under the cybercrime act

Two Lahore-based journalists, Amir Mir and Imran Shafqat, were booked under the cybercrime act by the Pakistani Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)....

India: Former police constable allegedly stabs Andhra Pradesh journalist to death

Chennakeshavalu, a reporter who worked for local television news channel EV5, was killed in Nandyal, a city in the southeastern state of Andhra...

Cambodia: Concerns over government arbiter on media ethics

Cambodian journalists have expressed concern that a new ethics review mechanism launched by the Camboadian government on August 2 could be used to...

UK: NUJ and the IFJ urge government to offer assistance to Afghan journalists

UK media organisations and the IFJ’s affiliate the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) have written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Foreign...

China: Journalist jailed for providing information to human rights groups

On July 29, a Chinese court sentenced Zhou Wilin, a reporter for the human rights news website Weiquanqwang, to three years and six months in prison...

Afghanistan: US government includes Afghan journalists in US refugee program

The United States’ government announced on August 2 that it will provide Afghan nationals working at US-based media outlets and NGOs an opportunity to...

Malaysia: Riot police block opposition members from entering parliament

Opposition members of Malaysia’s parliament who marched to the parliamentary building on August 2 were met by a police blockade and threatened with...

Afghanistan: Taliban militants attack and abduct journalists

Taliban militants shot at a car carrying journalists Shakib Shams and Storio Karimi on August 1 in the Pol-e Malan area of Herat Province. The...

Thailand: New regulation curtails free speech

Thailand’s government has implemented a new regulation under Section 9 of the Royal Decree on Public Administration in Emergency Situations which...

Afghanistan: Journalists arrested over allegation of spreading propaganda

Four Afghan journalists, Bismillah Watandoost, Qudrat Soltani, Mujib Obaidi, and Sanaullah Siam were arrested by Afghanistan’s National Directorate of...

Hong Kong: National Security Police intimidate reporter and confiscate travel documents

The Hong Kong police force’s national security unit searched a journalist’s home on July 26 and confiscated her travel documents, mobile phone and...

China: Foreign journalists covering flood disaster harassed

Foreign journalists reporting on the recent floods in Zhengzhou in central China’s Henan province on July 22 were harassed and threatened by citizens...

Covering the Delta variant: Describing its features without exaggerating its impact

Covering the Covid-19 pandemic has been a real challenge for journalists. The surge of new virus variants, such as Delta, and the lack of clear...

Afghanistan: Radio Najarab silenced amid conflict

Broadcasts from Radio Najarab, a radio station in Najrab district of Kapisa Province, ceased from July 20 after staffers fled to save their lives amid...

Philippines: Radio commentator shot outside radio station

Radio commentator, Renante “Rey” Cortes, was shot dead on July 22 outside radio station, DyRB, in Barangay Mambaling in central Philippines . The...

Hong Kong: Authorities charge four Apple Daily journalists with collusion

Hong Kong’s national security police have arrested two senior editors and two editorial writers at Apple Daily on July 21, weeks after the media...

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