ISLAMABAD (AA) – A court in Pakistan has ordered the release of a news channel executive facing sedition charges. Ammad Yousaf, head of news for local broadcaster ARY News, was arrested in the southern port city of Karachi a day earlier. The charges he faced were in connection with comments made by Shahbaz Gill, an […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – The Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) said Monday it is troubled by a new police directive aimed at gagging journalists. In a statement, the SJS said it is “concerned about the new instructions issued by Somali police spokesman Major Abdifatah Adan Hassan threatening legal action against any reporter that reports any...
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia – (AFP): US President Joe Biden has said that he confronted Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over attacks on dissidents during his visit to Saudi Arabia. Prince Mohammed bin Salman drew global outrage for the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate, an operation US i...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia’s president on Thursday authorized the country’s attorney general to block foreign media from countries that do the same to Russian outlets. Amid international pushback over the ongoing war in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has signed a new law that gives the attorney general power to order outlets off the air i...
COLOGNE, Germany (AA) – A labor court in Germany’s Bonn has ruled against Deutsche Welle (DW) on the dismissal of Palestinian journalist Maram Salim over ‘anti Semitism’ allegations. The Bonn Labor Court on July 6 ruled that her termination of employment at Deutsche Welle was invalid and unlawful as her Facebook posts w...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The findings of a US investigation into the killing of trailblazing Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh have left her family in a state of abject disappointment. The family said that the findings of the US forensic examination only reiterate the Israeli narrative on the killing of the veteran Palestinian reporter. Ab...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinians have condemned the results of a US investigation into the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Abu Akleh, 51, was a trailblazing Palestinian journalist who was shot dead on May 11 while covering an Israeli military raid near the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. [&hellip...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Monday rejected “manipulation” of investigations into the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Abu Akleh, 51, was shot dead on May 11 while covering an Israeli military raid near the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. While Palestinian officials and he...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – An Arab NGO has documented 44 Israeli rights violations against Palestinian journalists in the occupied Palestinian territories during the month of June alone. The Journalists Support Committee has said that Israeli forces deliberately assassinated female journalist Ghufran Warasnah, 31, in the city of Hebron last m...
Freelance journalist Tasmiha Khan of Chicago and a team of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporters have been named the 2022-23 Richard C. Longworth Media Fellows. Rick Barrett, Corrinne Hess, and Mark Hoffman join Khan as fellowship recipients. In collaboration with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the Longworth Media Fellowships promote in...
