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American newspaper The Wall Street Journal has terminated Hong Kong-based reporter Selina Cheng weeks after she was elected chair of the city’s embattled Hong Kong Journalist Association (HKJA), which has met with increasing pressure from authorities. Reporters on Wednesday afternoon received an invitation to a press conference at 5.30 pm about the “unreasonable decision to terminate the employment of HKJA chair Selina Cheng.” The newspaper announced in early May that it planned to move its Asia headquarters to Singapore, with layoffs of Hong Kong staff. According to Hong Kong’s Employment Ord...
Hong Kong Free Press
New York Times opinion columnist Masha A. Gessen was sentenced in absentia on July 15 by a Moscow court to eight years in prison over comments Gessen made about Russian war crimes committed in Ukraine. According to the New York Times, Gessen was convicted by the Basmanny District Court for spreading "false information" about Russia's military, having described the massacre committed by Russian Armed Forces in Bucha and neighboring communities during an interview in 2022 with a Russian journalist. Russian authorities charged the Russian-born American journalist in August 2022 - with the verdict...
Kyiv Independent
New York Times opinion columnist Masha A. Gessen was sentenced in absentia on July 15 by a Moscow court to eight years in prison over comments Gessen made about Russian war crimes committed in Ukraine. According to the New York Times, Gessen was convicted by the Basmanny District Court for spreading "false information" about Russia's military, having described the massacre committed by Russian Armed Forces in Bucha and neighboring communities during an interview in 2022 with a Russian journalist. Russian authorities charged the Russian-born American journalist in August 2022 - with the verdict...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
New York Times opinion columnist Masha A. Gessen was sentenced in absentia on July 15 by a Moscow court to eight years in prison over comments Gessen made about Russian war crimes committed in Ukraine. According to the New York Times, Gessen was convicted by the Basmanny District Court for spreading "false information" about Russia's military, having described the massacre committed by Russian Armed Forces in Bucha and neighboring communities during an interview in 2022 with a Russian journalist. Russian authorities charged the Russian-born American journalist in August 2022 - with the verdict...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
Russia's Prosecutor General's Office ruled on July 10 to declare the independent Russian media outlet the Moscow Times an "undesirable organization," which establishes criminal penalties for anyone who works with or has links to the outlet. The law on "undesirable" organizations has existed since 2015 and has been used to target perceived opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime, including NGOs, independent media outlets, human rights groups, and others. The prosecutor's office justified their decision by claiming that the work of the Moscow Times is "is aimed at discrediting the...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
Russia's Prosecutor General's Office ruled on July 10 to declare the independent Russian media outlet the Moscow Times an "undesirable organization," which establishes criminal penalties for anyone who works with or has links to the outlet. The law on "undesirable" organizations has existed since 2015 and has been used to target perceived opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime, including NGOs, independent media outlets, human rights groups, and others. The prosecutor's office justified their decision by claiming that the work of the Moscow Times is "is aimed at discrediting the...
Kyiv Independent
Russia's Prosecutor General's Office ruled on July 10 to declare the independent Russian media outlet the Moscow Times an "undesirable organization," which establishes criminal penalties for anyone who works with or has links to the outlet. The law on "undesirable" organizations has existed since 2015 and has been used to target perceived opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime, including NGOs, independent media outlets, human rights groups, and others. The prosecutor's office justified their decision by claiming that the work of the Moscow Times is "is aimed at discrediting the...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
Slovakia's opposition parties have accused the government of attempting to restrict media freedom after a new law came into force which would give parliament more control over public broadcasting. The new legislation, pushed for by PM Robert Fico's ruling party, SMER, will create a new Slovak Television and Radio station, which will replace RTVS and dismiss the broadcaster’s current director, Lubosz Machaj. The Slovakian government will then elect a new director selected by a council whose nine members will be nominated by the Culture Ministry and parliament. Machaj still has a parliamentary m...
Euronews (English)
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)
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