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Russian courts issued arrest warrants last month for three exiled journalists, a move analysts interpret as an attempt to harass critics beyond the country's borders. On June 17, a Moscow court ordered the arrests of Ekaterina Fomina and Roman Anin, accusing them of spreading what the Kremlin considers false information about the Russian military. In a separate case on June 27, a court issued an arrest warrant for Farida Kurbangaleyeva, charging her with justifying terrorism and disseminating what Moscow deems false information about the Russian military, Voice of America (VOA) reported. Kurba...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
Russian courts issued arrest warrants last month for three exiled journalists, a move analysts interpret as an attempt to harass critics beyond the country's borders. On June 17, a Moscow court ordered the arrests of Ekaterina Fomina and Roman Anin, accusing them of spreading what the Kremlin considers false information about the Russian military. In a separate case on June 27, a court issued an arrest warrant for Farida Kurbangaleyeva, charging her with justifying terrorism and disseminating what Moscow deems false information about the Russian military, Voice of America (VOA) reported. Kurba...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
Russian courts issued arrest warrants last month for three exiled journalists, a move analysts interpret as an attempt to harass critics beyond the country's borders. On June 17, a Moscow court ordered the arrests of Ekaterina Fomina and Roman Anin, accusing them of spreading what the Kremlin considers false information about the Russian military. In a separate case on June 27, a court issued an arrest warrant for Farida Kurbangaleyeva, charging her with justifying terrorism and disseminating what Moscow deems false information about the Russian military, Voice of America (VOA) reported. Kurba...
Kyiv Independent
What is it, one wonders, about Secretary for Security Chris Tang and the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA)? Tang, after all, has a lot on his plate. He is responsible for repelling every threat to peace, order and national security in Hong Kong. The latter, we are often told, needs constant alertness and attention. Yet it seems Tang is never too busy to have a go at the HKJA. The HKJA is a small voluntary body aiming to serve and protect the interests of people working in journalism. It does the usual things: seminars, workshops, occasional dinners and the odd press release on relevant ...
Hong Kong Free Press
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...
Euronews (English)
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...
Euronews (English)
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...
Hong Kong Free Press
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 ...
Hong Kong Free Press
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...
Euronews (English)
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...
Hong Kong Free Press
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