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Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich went on trial behind closed doors in Yekaterinburg on Wednesday, 15 months after his arrest on espionage charges that he, his employer and the US government vehemently deny. The 32-year-old journalist appeared in the court in a padlocked glass cage, his head shaved and wearing a black-and-blue plaid shirt. Journalists were allowed into the courtroom for a few minutes before the proceedings were closed. The US-born son of immigrants from the USSR, Gershkovich is the first Western journalist arrested on espionage charges in post-Soviet Russia. The Ru...
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pleaded guilty to obtaining and publishing US military secrets Wednesday in a deal with Justice Department prosecutors that secures his liberty and concludes a drawn-out legal saga that raised divisive questions about press freedom and national security. The criminal case of international intrigue, which has played out for years on major world stages in Washington and London, came to a surprise end in a most unusual setting with Assange, 52, entering his plea in a US district court in Saipan, the capital of the Northern Mariana Islands. The American commonwealt...
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The Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) voted in a new Executive Committee (ExCom) and chair on Saturday as Channel C’s Ronson Chan stood down as head of the press group. The Wall Street Journal’s Selina Cheng took the helm at the Association’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Jordan, having secured 100 votes, with two voting against. Two candidates, the Justice Centre’s Preston Cheung and the BBC’s Danny Vincent, dropped out of the race for Executive Committee seats, though both were voted in on Saturday with Chan saying there was no mechanism for them to withdraw. Cheung told HKFP he wou...
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A press group in Macau has called on the local authorities to explain why they denied entry to Hong Kong journalism scholar Vivian Tam, who was detained and turned away over “public security” concerns. It was “absurd” for Macau immigration officers detain Tam, a senior journalism lecturer at Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), for half an hour on Saturday morning before sending her back to Hong Kong, the Macau Journalists Association wrote on Facebook on Saturday afternoon. According to the press group, it had invited Tam to attend and host a workshop, but Macau authorities refused to let ...
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Russian authorities have announced that US journalist Evan Gershkovich, who has been jailed for over a year on espionage charges, will be standing trial in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg. According to Russia's Prosecutor General's office, an indictment of the Wall Street Journal reporter has been finalised and his case filed to the Sverdlovsky Regional Court in the city about 1,400 kilometres east of Moscow. Gershkovich is accused of "gathering secret information" on orders from the CIA about Uralvagonzavod, a facility in the Sverdlovsk region that produces and repairs military equip...
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Hong Kong police have condemned claims that a press group chief received an “unreasonable warning” from an officer while covering the 35th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. Police on Wednesday rejected a statement from the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA), which criticised police officers over obstructing reporting, issuing an “unreasonable warning” and taking a photojournalist aside in Causeway Bay on Tuesday. Crackdown anniversaryTuesday marked 35 years since the Tiananmen crackdown occurred on June 4, 1989, which put an end to months of student-led demonstrations in China...
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A Georgian parliament committee rejected on Monday the president’s veto of the "foreign agents" law which has sparked massive protests for weeks. The move sets up the possibility of a vote of the full legislature on Tuesday to override President Salome Zourabichvili’s veto of the measure, which she and other critics say will restrict media freedom and obstruct Georgia’s chances of joining the European Union. The law would require news media and non-governmental organisations that get more than 20% of their budget from abroad to register as “carrying out the interests of a foreign power.” Oppon...
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The media can “ask questions” but not provoke conflicts or make slanderous remarks, Chief Executive John Lee has said at an awards ceremony for the city’s news industry. The news industry must abide by professional ethics and provide readers with accurate and comprehensive information, as well as pertinent and unbiased reports, Lee said at the Hong Kong News Awards on Friday. He offered the organiser, the Newspaper Society of Hong Kong, his support for “promoting the development of high quality journalism,” and added that Hong Kong’s economy needed the power of the media to spread the news of ...
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A strange, indeed barely believable, controversy has erupted over a question which appears hardly disputable: whether Hong Kong still enjoys the degree of press freedom that it did before 2020. “Nothing has changed” is the official line pushed by government spokesmen in Beijing, echoed by local Grenville Cross in newspaper pieces. For the opposite view we have Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontiéres or RSF if you are subject to Quebec Province language laws) who are the compilers and curators of the relevant international league table, the World Press Freedom Index. The message of...
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Critics fear it jeopardizes democratic freedoms and EU aspirations, requiring media and NGOs to register if over 20% of funding is foreign. The government argues it combats harmful foreign influence and prevents destabilization. Opposition labels it "the Russian law," akin to Moscow's crackdown on dissent. Mass protests grip the nation, echoing last year's pressure on a similar bill. Renewed demonstrations prompt police clashes with tear gas and water cannons. President Zourabichvili vows veto, but ruling party's majority could override it.
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