PHNOM PENH: An award-winning Cambodian journalist, arrested over social media posts, applied for bail on Thursday (Oct 24) after pro-government media released a prison video showing him apologising to the country’s leaders. Source
A prominent investigative journalist has been released to house arrest in Guatemala, after his case shone a light on questions of democratic backsliding in the country. Jose Ruben Zamora, the award-winning founder of the newspaper El Periodico, had been imprisoned for more than 800 days as he awaits a retrial on money laundering charges. But…
Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna, who had been missing since August 2023, has died while in Russian captivity, Ukrainian authorities reported on 10 October 2024. According to Reporters Without Borders (RSF), more than 100 Ukrainian and foreign journalists have been directly affected by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which began in February 2022. Petro Yatsenko, a…
Viktoria Roshchyna, a Ukrainian journalist who died in Russian captivity, was held in Russian detention centers where torture is used against the prisoners, the Media Initiative for Human Rights said on Oct. 11.Ukrainian officials confirmed Roshchyna’s death on Oct. 10 but said that the circumstances of her death are still under investigation. The journalist disappeared…
A memorial was held in Kyiv on Sept. 16 to mark the 24th anniversary of the abduction of Ukrainian journalist Georgiy Gongadze.A number of Ukrainian journalists gathered in downtown Kyiv to open a temporary “memorial alley,” where, over the course of a week, people can learn more about one of Ukraine’s first high-profile journalists murdered…
For the first time in nearly 40 years, Russian authorities arrested an American journalist on espionage charges. Evan Gershkovich of the Wall Street Journal was detained on Wednesday while reporting in central Russia. It’s an escalation of a Kremlin campaign that has targeted independent media, opposition politicians and critics of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.…
Nearly 1,000 people attended a ceremony Sunday honoring the memory of Ukrainian journalist Iryna Tsybukh, who was killed in action while serving as a volunteer combat medic a few days before her 26th birthday. Tsybukh was killed while on rotation in the Kharkiv area, where Russia started its offensive nearly a month ago. (AP video:…
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