ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan’s telecommunications regulatory authority has blocked Wikipedia, an online international encyclopaedia service, for publishing and failing to remove blasphemous content, an official said on Saturday. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has blocked Wikipedia after it failed to meet a 48-hour deadline s...
New Delhi, India (AFP): An Indian journalist held in custody for more than two years without trial walked free on Thursday after being granted bail in a money laundering case. Siddique Kappan was arrested in October 2020 in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, where he had travelled to report on a high-profile gang rape […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli forces have killed 55 Palestinian journalists since 2000, according to a local journalists’ syndicate. “Fifty-five reporters have been killed either by Israeli fire or bombardment since 2000,” Naser Abu Baker, head of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS), told a press conference in the West Bank ...
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday accused the West of adopting “double standards” on freedom of media. Speaking at the 7th Anatolian Media Awards ceremony in the capital Ankara, Erdogan said: “Those accusing Türkiye of censorship remain silent about those (Twitter) doing real cens...
Naypyidaw, Myanmar (AFP): Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to another seven years in jail as her long series of trials ended on Friday, with the Nobel laureate now facing more than three decades behind bars. A prisoner of the military since a coup last year, Suu Kyi, 77, has been convicted on […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – The European Commission has proposed to strengthen the rules that prevent and combat human trafficking. Every year over 7,000 people become victims of human trafficking in the EU, a commission statement said, adding that the figure can be higher due to many undetected cases. The majority of victims are women and girls [&h...
PARIS (AA) – Thousands of people took to the streets of Paris on Sunday on the occasion of International Migrants Day to protest against a new immigration draft law. After gathering at the Porte de la Chapelle metro station, they started walking towards the city center. The demonstrators held banners saying “France, illegal” and &#...
IZMIR, Türkiye (AA) – A prominent politician in Sweden is pushing for the passage of a bill that would ban headscarves in the Swedish police force. The proposed law may also be extended to all public employees, Richard Jomshof, the chairman of parliament’s Justice Committee, said Monday. He hopes that the coalition of four right-wing [&h...
LAHORE, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan has rejected the US State Department’s listing of the South Asian country as a state of “particular concern” for religious freedoms, saying that the claim is “detached from realities on the ground.” Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch expressed her disappointment with the issue, calling it a “...
Dakar, Senegal (AFP): Several hundred journalists, civil society members and political party representatives demonstrated Friday in Senegal’s capital to demand the release of a journalist and government critic detained earlier this month. Journalist union representatives marched along a boulevard near the Dakar city centre, chanting R...
