(Caitlin Johnstone) The Kafkaesque extradition trial of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange continues, with each frustrating day making it clearer than the day before that what we are watching is nothing other than a staged performance by ...
Journalists and dissidents alike are being targeted by American police in the land of the free. Is it as simple as an out of control police force, or something more? (By: Raul Diego, Mintpress News) ...
The extradition trial of Julian Assange began with the prosecution reading out a damning statement from five leading mainstream media organizations that once partnered with Wikileaks. (By: Alan MacLeod, Mintpress News) The extradition trial of ...
“If they are allowed to extradite him from here, they will, and they will lock him up until he dies, which probably won’t be very long, just for being a journalist and informing the public ...
“The most essential journalism of every era,” says the NSA whistleblower, “is precisely that which a government attempts to silence.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) In an op-ed published Sunday night by the Washington Post, National Security ...
“Charging journalists with criminal activity based on interactions with sources sends a chilling message to reporters working on sensitive stories…” The Brazilian government charged Rio-based journalist Glenn Greenwald with cybercrimes for his reporting on leaked ...
Assange and Manning are being persecuted for speaking truth to power. The most important stories of the year for those who care about a free press involve the arrest of Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian ...
“Mr. Assange showed all symptoms typical for prolonged exposure to psychological torture, including extreme stress, chronic anxiety and intense psychological trauma.” More than 60 doctors sent an urgent letter to U.K. authorities on Monday warning ...
“Reporting on the database also revealed that the U.S. government coordinated with Mexican authorities to monitor these individuals.” The American Civil Liberties Union is suing on behalf of journalists it says were detained and spied ...
The Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal has been arrested on false charges after reporting on Venezuelan opposition violence outside the DC embassy. He describes the manufactured case as part of a wider campaign of political persecution. ...
“Our primary opponent is the Fake News Media. In the history of our Country, they have never been so bad!” Some of President Trump’s political allies are raising money to find dirt on journalists and ...
Mexico, already the most dangerous country for journalists in the Western Hemisphere, recorded more journalists deaths in the first seven months of 2019 than in all of 2018. (By Parker Asmann, InSight Crime) Reporters in ...
Greenwald, co-founder of The Intercept, applauded the court for protecting journalism against “repressive, retaliatory acts threatened by the Bolsonaro government.” (By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) The Brazilian Supreme Court delivered a major victory for press freedom on Thursday ...
Washington’s aggressive prosecution of Assange is a pivotal case for journalism that could have a vast and severe impact on journalists and whistleblowers for decades to come. The U.K. signed a controversial order last Wednesday ...
“This is a serious development and raises legitimate concerns over freedom of the press and proper public scrutiny of national security and defense matters. The ABC stands by its journalists, will protect its sources and ...
“With gratitude and hope I accept the award on behalf of all the brave journalists who are doing their job every day,” – Anabel Hernández as she received the 2019 DW Freedom of Speech Award. ...
“Any government use of the Espionage Act to criminalize the receipt and publication of classified information poses a dire threat to journalists seeking to publish such information in the public interest, irrespective of the Justice ...
“We are enormously pleased that Myanmar has released our courageous reporters, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo. Since their arrests 511 days ago, they have become symbols of the importance of press freedom around the ...
World Press Freedom Day was observed on May 3, but the murder of a Mexican journalist the day before cast a dark shadow on the day. On the eve of World Press Freedom Day (May ...
Julian Assange is charged with a conspiracy to criminally obtain classified information through computer hacking — not with a conspiracy to disclose or publish classified information. (By Ofer Raban, The Conversation) A British court on ...
“Essentially, the climate that journalists work in has simply deteriorated worldwide.” Hostility towards journalists across the globe is growing, according to the 2019 World Press Freedom Index released by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) last Thursday. ...
Embassy ouster was a long-reported condition for pact. (By Jason Ditz, AntiWar) WikiLeaks has long reported that the $10 billion IMF bailout for Ecuador was closely related to complying with US demands, in particular on revoking the ...
“More and more democratically-elected leaders no longer see the media as part of democracy’s essential underpinning, but as an adversary to which they openly display their aversion.” Amal Clooney, international rights lawyer and the wife ...
“I think this is clearly a response to what you learned through freedom of information requests… They did not like to have to disclose that information. This is an effort to prevent that in the ...
The United Nations (UN) will officially lead an international inquiry into the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, an opinion writer for the Washington Post. UN Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard will stay in Turkey from ...
The FBI released Marzieh Hashemi, 59, an American-born Iranian journalist from a 10-day detention in Washington, DC, as a material witness in a criminal matter before a grand jury.
Citizen Truth journalist Catherine Shakdam reports on the US detainment of Iranian American journalist Marzieh Hashemi and the movement to #FreeMarzieh. News broke this Tuesday of the arrest of prominent US-born Iranian TV anchor, Marzieh Hashemi, ...
For the first time ever, the United States has found itself on the list of the top six deadliest countries for journalists around the world. The media advocacy group, Reporters Without Borders, compiles an annual ...
The murder of Bulgarian journalist Viktoria Marinova is the third death of a prominent journalist in the European Union in the last year. The body of Viktoria Marinova, a 30-year-old Bulgaria TV journalist, was found ...
They were accused of accessing classified documents that revealed the role of the state in the massacre of the Rohingyas. (NewsClick) Just a week after a United Nations Fact Finding Mission (FFM) recommended an investigation ...
“Anyone who does care about news needs to understand Facebook as a fundamental threat.” (Common Dreams) During a closed-door and off-the-record meeting last week, top Facebook executive Campbell Brown reportedly warned news publishers that refusal ...
Two major Turkish media outlets are bought by a pro-government group and Turkey President Erdogan detains hundreds of journalists all while other European countries face similar threats to press freedom. Freedom of the press faces ...
The launch of a new community radio program is a significant step towards more open Myanmar press freedom, but the arrest of two Reuters journalists is a step back. Despite restrictive press access to Myanmar’s ...
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