Sixty world leaders and dignitaries attended Sunday’s solidarity rally in Paris, leaping at the occasion to be seen as “staunch defenders” of the press, even while many of them are guilty of suppressing free speech themselves.
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Our new Belarusian columnist, Michał Janczuk, reports on the mysterious hackers who conveniently pave the way for further government restrictions on independent media.
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In Ethiopia, journalists are often presumed “guilty until proven innocent.” For his first column with Sampsonia Way, Chalachew Tadesse overviews the deterioration of Ethiopia’s press freedom.
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Journalists, media specialists and organizations supporting press freedom from the post-Soviet region will meet in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, this week to discuss current trends in their countries and to debate the way forward for the independent media.
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“It is not a great time to be a journalist in America.” In this article originally published on August 21 at the ACLU, author Nao Yachot examines the ways in which the events in Ferguson indicate an ongoing trend of government attacks on First Amendment rights.
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Sidharth Bhatia, a Mumbai-based journalist who reports for the Times of India and The Dawn, discusses the effect of economic reforms on India’s media in the Freedom Chat.
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Nazeeha Saeed, who was imprisoned and tortured during the pro-democracy protests in 2011, discusses the state of journalism in Bahrain and her struggle for justice in this edition of The Freedom Chat.
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