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Press freedom

August 2024

  • David Neuberger

    Former UK supreme court head quits media freedom role over work as judge in Hong Kong

  • Martina Šimkovičová being sworn in as culture minister

    Slovakia purges heads of national theatre and gallery in ‘arts crackdown’

  • Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina sits as she addresses a meeting with foreign observers and journalists in Dhaka.

    Bangladeshi journalists hopeful of press freedom as Hasina era ends

  • Maria Ressa, 2021 Nobel peace prize co-winner and founder of Rappler, an online news outfit, displays documents showing the court's decision, with her lawyer Francis Lim seated beside her at a press conference at the Rappler office in Manila, Philippines, Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Joeal Calupitan)

    Philippines court voids order to shut down independent news site Rappler

  • Prosecutors plan to charge ex-police chief for raid on Kansas newspaper

  • ‘Somewhere between Orwell and Kafka’: Hungary closes in on its media

  • Bullets and teargas reportedly fired at journalists covering protests in Nigeria

July 2024

  • AliNur Salaad

    Somalia arrests another journalist as press clampdown intensifies

  • Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni

    Freedom safeguards for Italy’s public service media ‘urgently needed’

  • A young Mongolian woman sitting on a leather sofa wearing a blue shirt in front of a series of large black and white news photos hung on the wall

    Opinion
    I do not expect a free trial. But to give up means the end of journalism in Mongolia

    Unurtsetseg Naran
  • Headshot of Evan Gershkovich in the glass-covered defendants’ box

    Russian court sentences US journalist Evan Gershkovich to 16 years in prison

  • Wall Street Journal fires new chair of Hong Kong Journalists Association

  • Record number of journalists killed in Pakistan already this year

June 2024

  • Kenan Malik

    Julian Assange is free, but his case is a grim reminder of the fragility of press freedom

    Kenan Malik
  • Building covered in scaffolding and hoarding sadvertising Cop29

    Journalists refused entry to Azerbaijan energy conference ahead of Cop29

  • John Kampfner

    After Robert Fico’s shooting, Slovakia is heading full throttle towards authoritarianism

    John Kampfner
  • The WikiLeaks founder has just ended a 12-year legal battle by accepting a plea deal that saw him accept one charge under the US espionage act

    'Julian plans to swim in the ocean every day,' says Stella Assange after husband freed – video

  • Closed-door trial of US journalist Evan Gershkovich begins in Russia

  • Transparency watchdog investigated as Hungary tries to curb ‘foreign influence’

  • Today in Focus
    A win for Julian Assange and a loss for press freedom? – podcast

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