Tag: Media
Hong Kong bookseller Gui Minhai sentenced to 10 years jail
Gui is the highest-profile of five booksellers who disappeared between October and December 2015
Singapore blocks Facebook page of news site under controversial fake news...
Rights group says targeting of news portal ‘is the latest proof that law is ‘simply a tool for censorship’
China pulls WSJ journalists’ credentials over coronavirus editorial
Newspaper declined to apologize for a column with a headline calling China the 'real sick man of Asia'
Rights group targets Bangladesh over free speech arrests
Human Rights Watch says 'vague' digital security law intended to stifle free speech
Double-barrelled attack on Philippines’ press freedom
Filipino journalists say press freedom is currently 'under siege', but argue the truth will outlive those who stifle it
Philippine media groups hit govt move to shut down TV network
A franchise has to be granted by govt for a television or radio network to operate in the country
Myanmar poet, lawyer granted bail in military ‘defamation’ case
Court cites defendants old age, poor health in decision
Rights group warns of clampdown on freedom in Nepal
Amnesty International calls out attacks on free speech, civil society
Award-winning Pakistani film suspended over blasphemy row
Filmmaker calls on people to stop ‘spewing hate’ in name of religion
Deadly land dispute in Vietnam sparks crackdown on ‘critical’ social media
Conflicts over land are common in Vietnam, where farmland was forcibly redistributed in the 1970s during Communist rule in the north