Criminal offenses have been introduced into the new version of the law regulating content on social and digital media, with government agencies being the sole arbiter of what is “false” or “fake”.

The Guatemalan journalist will stay out of prison. However, he remains under house arrest for a conviction that many have described as “persecution of press freedom”.

Officials and human rights organizations accused Israel of deliberately targeting journalists in Lebanon and Gaza to cover up its crimes and impose a media blackout.

Despite being scheduled for release on September 29, Egyptian authorities have refused to release Abdel Fattah

Assange has remained imprisoned without charges since April 2019 in the Belmarsh prison at the behest of the extradition request by the US. If extradited, Assange will stand trial in the US and face 17 charges under the notorious Espionage Act that could land him a 175-year prison sentence.

On the first day of Assange’s crucial hearing his defense highlighted the political nature of the US extradition attempt, which is a violation of the UK/US extradition treaty

The NGO was barred from visiting Assange in Belmarsh after months of preparation because Prison Governor Louis “received intelligence” that they were journalists

A former speaker of Israel’s parliament along with academics and activists in Israel have requested an investigation into the sale of the Pegasus software to Ghana in 2016 through a private reseller in a transaction that was judged as illegal and corrupt by the High Court in Ghana’s capital Accra in 2020

The arrest of Sedef Kadaf once again highlights the ongoing persecution of journalists and opposition leaders under the right-wing government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey

During the appeals hearing, the US will challenge the decision of a lower court to deny the extradition of Julian Assange. Rights groups have called the prosecution of Assange an attack on press freedom

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Prosecutors said judge Vanessa Baraitser erred in determining what could be “oppressive conditions” in case Assange is extradited. They claimed she did not give the US enough opportunity to give “assurances” over her concerns about harsh prison conditions