Still no justice, a year since Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing
The senior Al-Jazeera journalist was killed and her colleagues attacked by Israeli forces while they were covering an Israeli army raid on a refugee camp in Jenin in the occupied West Bank last year in May
Israeli forces must be held accountable for killing of journalists: CPJ
According to the CPJ, in the last 22 years, Israeli defense forces have killed at least 20 journalists, 18 of them Palestinians. All the killings have taken place inside the occupied Palestinian territories
Rights organizations raise deep concern over Indian tax authorities’ ‘survey’ operation on BBC
The ‘survey’ operation conducted by the Income Tax Department was condemned by opposition parties, rights bodies and journalists’ organizations. It comes barely a month after the BBC aired a controversial two-part documentary on the Gujarat riots of 2002
Indian journalist Siddique Kappan released on bail after 850 days in custody
Kappan was arrested more than two years ago while on his way to report on the alleged gang rape and murder of a Dalit woman in India’s Uttar Pradesh State
Algerian journalist Mohamed Moulouj placed in pre-trial detention on terrorism charges
Mohamed Mouloudj faces charges such as spreading false news, harming national unity, and belonging to a terrorist group. The authorities also arrested several prominent civil society figures, including academics, journalists and a Hirak activist
Journalists bodies demand release of investigative reporter in Bangladesh
Known for unearthing graft of the Bangladeshi government, investigative journalist Rozina Islam was arrested for violating the colonial-era official secrecy law, Official Secrets Act
Journalist Virgilio Maganes shot dead in Philippines, the 18th such murder during Duterte’s rule
62-year-old Virgilio Maganes was shot dead by unknown gunmen in the Pangasinan province on Tuesday. He had survived a similar attempt on his life in 2016
Journalist Maria Ressa convicted of libel, blow to press freedom in Philippines
Ressa, along with her colleague Reynaldo Santos Jr., were charged of ‘cyber libel’ under a contentious 2012 law by a multimillionaire businessman
Egyptian journalist arrested while interviewing jailed activist’s mother, released on bail hours later
Lina Attalah, the editor-in-chief of the Egyptian independent news outlet Mada Masr, was arrested while speaking to Laila Soueif, the mother of political prisoner Alaa Abdel Fattah
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