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Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak addresses a press conference at the Prime Minister's office in Putrajaya on July 28, 2015. (AFP/MOHD RASFAN)
March 26, 2018, 12:10 pm
Malaysian government seeks 10 years in jail for ‘fake news’
Opposition slams bill as 'attack on the press,' fearing it will be used to stifle stories on local PM's corruption scandal
By EILEEN NG
In this Friday June 26, 2009 photo, BBC Persian service presenter Fardad Farahzad, right, gets ready to present the news, at the corporation's London headquarters. (AP Photo/Simon Dawson, File)
March 12, 2018, 5:18 am
BBC urges UN to help protect rights of its Iranian staff
Broadcaster says unprecedented appeal to world body a response to increasing 'persecution and harassment' of Persian Service staff
By AFP
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, waves to supporters during a rally in Istanbul, Friday, Dec. 15, 2017. (Kayhan Ozer/Pool Photo via AP)
January 17, 2018, 1:07 am
Global survey finds Turkey is no longer a free country
Blaming Trump, think tank warns world democracy in crisis in annual freedom report; Israel only free nation in Mideast, but also takes downturn on civil liberties
By Raoul Wootliff
Journalists watch a live broadcast of Russian President Vladimir Putin's Federal Assembly address at a press room at the Kremlin in Moscow on December 1, 2016. (AFP /Natalia KOLESNIKOVA)
November 15, 2017, 8:45 pm
Russian lawmakers back legislation targeting foreign media
In response to US pressure on RT, Kremlin amendment would require outlets to register as 'foreign agents'
By Anna MALPAS
In this Friday June 26, 2009 photo, BBC Persian service presenter Fardad Farahzad, right, gets ready to present the news, at the corporation's London headquarters. (AP Photo/Simon Dawson, File)
October 25, 2017, 11:35 pm
BBC complains to UN about Iran targeting its Persian service
Assets of over 150 people associated with British broadcaster frozen after allegations of 'conspiracy against national security'
By Jon Gambrell
File: Turkish journalists stand behind a banner reading "If you have a free press, there is a free society -- the Gaztec organizations G9 Platform" (a journalists' association) as they protest against attacks on journalists and in support of freedom of the press during a demonstration in Ankara on May 3, 2014. (Adem Altan/AFP)
October 11, 2017, 12:24 pm
Turkey sentences Wall Street Journal reporter to prison
Ayla Albayrak to appeal conviction on charge of propaganda supporting outlawed Kurdish rebels
By AP
Illustrative image of two Egyptian daily newspaper from Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015, the state-owned Al-Gomhuria newspaper, (bottom), and the independent daily, El-Watan. (AP Photo)
September 6, 2017, 5:30 pm
Rights group: Egypt exerts growing control over local media
Reporters Without Borders says journalists are being monitored and at least 424 anti-government websites blocked
By AP
A Palestinian prisoner holds the bars of a jail cell, illustrative (Channel 2 news)
August 14, 2017, 6:27 pm
Palestinian Authority to free arrested journalists – lawyer
Five reporters, including from Hamas-linked media, had been arrested on accusations of 'leaking sensitive information'
By Agencies
Workers at the al-Jazeera offices in Jerusalem on June 13, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 9, 2017, 7:48 pm
Danes to Israel: Don’t shut down Al Jazeera’s bureau
Journalists' union appeals to ambassador 'to do whatever is in your power' to keep Qatar-owned broadcaster open
By AP
A member of the Israeli security forces gestures with his left arm as he stands before the Dome of the Rock, in the Old City of Jerusalem on July 27, 2017. (AFP/ AHMAD GHARABLI)
July 28, 2017, 2:57 am
Reporters demand police stop blocking press from Old City
Foreign Press Association accuses officials of violating 'basic constitutional rights'
By Stuart Winer
Israeli security forces stand guard as Palestinian Muslim worshipers pray outside Lions Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, on July 22, 2017. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)
July 27, 2017, 12:36 am
In Jerusalem’s Old City, journalists banned while tourists film away
Reporters complain of lack of freedom as cops say they are keeping them from areas of 'disturbances and riots'
By Agencies
Muslim worshipers perform noon prayers by the Lions Gate, outside the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City, July 20, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
July 23, 2017, 8:30 pm
Israel briefly bars media from Jerusalem’s Old City
Foreign Press Association complains after cops deny access to entrances to Temple Mount where new security equipment installed
By TOI staff
Israel Radio employees during their final broadcast on May 10, 2017. (Noam Revkin Fentonr/Flash90)
May 11, 2017, 4:15 am
Knesset okays changes to new public broadcaster, ending years-long fight
Lawmakers approve separation of news division from new corporation, apparently bringing saga over shuttering Israel Broadcasting Authority to a close
By Marissa Newman
A man looks at the wreckage of a Jewish shop in Berlin on November 10, 1938, in the aftermath of Kristallnacht, an organized nationwide attack carried out by Nazi paramilitary forces and German civilians over two days. (AP Photo)
May 10, 2017, 4:51 pm
Amid collusion allegations, AP releases review of its coverage of Nazi Germany
News agency disputes accusations that it collaborated with the Third Reich, but allows that it was insufficiently independent
By David Crary
Carl Bernstein speaks at a Jerusalem conference on the Freedom of the Press, May 8, 2017 (Times of Israel staff)
May 9, 2017, 5:58 am
Carl Bernstein calls Israel the ‘epicenter’ of today’s geopolitics
At conference in Jerusalem on global press freedom, Watergate reporter says any journalist who wants to understand the world needs to understand Israel
By David Horovitz
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