An American journalist detained in Myanmar since May has now been sentenced to 11 years in prison. Danny Fenster was working as the managing editor of Frontier Myanmar, the 37-year-old was detained when he tried to leave Myanmar to head back home to see his family.

Myanmar: American Journalist Danny Fenster sentenced to 11 years imprisonment

Danny Fenster, an American journalist who was detained in Myanmar since May, has now been sentenced to 11 years in prison. His charges include unlawful association, incitement against the military and breaching visa rules.

US journalist Danny Fenster, detained in Myanmar, now jailed for 11 years

An American journalist detained for months by Myanmar's junta has been denied bail and hit with a third criminal charge, his lawyer told AFP on Thursday, drawing condemnation from Washington.

US journalist detained in Myanmar hit with third charge, says lawyer

A citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, jailed for her coverage of China's initial response to COVID-19 in Wuhan is close to death after going on hunger strike. The right groups have renewed calls for her immediate release.

China: Zhang Zhan, jailed for COVID-19 reporting in Wuhan is on brink of death

A journalist was attacked in the Afghan capital with a gunman on the motorcycle firing on his car; journo Ali Reza Sharifi shares the incident. The Taliban government has come forward and stated that they are investigating the matter.

Afghanistan: Journalist Ali Reza Sharifi survives gun attack in Kabul

Russian state media has labelled an American journalist as a 'sex object sent to distract Putin'. The President himself claimed the journalist was 'too beautiful' to understand his arguments. Palki Sharma tells you why women in public life are constantly subjected to sexist put-downs.

Gravitas: Russia labels journalist as 'sex object to distract Putin'

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte's office on Monday congratulated journalist Maria Ressa for winning the Nobel Peace Prize, calling it "a victory for a Filipina" for which it was happy to see.

Philippines president congratulates journalist Ressa on Nobel Prize

An American journalist imprisoned by Myanmar's junta since May has been hit with a second criminal charge, his lawyer told AFP on Tuesday. Danny Fenster, managing editor of Frontier Myanmar, was detained at Yangon International Airport as he attempted to leave the country.

US journalist held in Myanmar hit with second charge: lawyer

As the world gears up to celebrate Mahatma Gandhi's 152nd birth anniversary, Palki Sharma looks back at the journalist & diplomat in him. What would Gandhi say to our current world leaders?

Gravitas: What would Mahatma Gandhi say to current world leaders?

Sweden's prime minister on Thursday called on Eritrea to free a Swedish-Eritrean journalist held without charge for two decades, as an NGO petitioned Swedish authorities to investigate human rights abuses in the case.

Sweden urges Eritrea to release journalist held for 20 years

Danny Fenster, an American journalist who was arrested in May as he prepared to leave Myanmar, was ordered Monday to remain in prison as police investigate a vague accusation that he disseminated information that could be harmful to the military.

An American journalist sits in prison as Myanmar suppresses dissent

Like most people in Kabul, Afghan reporter Karim Mohammadi has now lost his job since the Taliban took over. The rapid reconquest of the capital by the Taliban after two decades of war has contributed to a lot of instability in the region and has not spared journalists like him.

Life under Taliban: An Afghan journalist opens up  

A journalist for DR Congo's national broadcaster had his throat slit in North Kivu in the country's east where massacres and clashes involving armed groups have prevailed for years.

Journalist murdered in eastern DR Congo

A former editor of the now-defunct Apple Daily pro-democracy newspaper, Lam Man-Chung was arrested on Wednesday by Hong Kong national security officers, weeks after the paper was forced to dissolve when authorities froze its assets.

Hong Kong police arrest another Apple Daily editor under China national security law 

The sentencing of a Moroccan journalist to five years in prison for indecent assault sparked condemnation Saturday, with media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) deploring a trial "tainted by irregularities".

Media watchdog blasts Morocco journalist's 5-year prison term on sex charge

Detained Moroccan journalist Soulaimane Raissouni was sentenced on Friday to five years in jail for indecent assault against another man. Raissouni, editor-in-chief of now-defunct newspaper Akhbar Al Yaoum, denies the charge and has been on a hunger strike for 93 days.

Moroccan journalist gets 5-year jail term for 'indecent assault'

The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has called for a countrywide protest on Monday against the adoption of the controversial Punjab Assembly Privilege Bill 2021, which envisages the award of punishment to journalists over the publication of reports about the proceedings of the assembly and its committees.

Pakistan journalists' union announces countrywide protest against law curbing press freedom in Punjab

Hong Kong police arrested a former senior journalist with the Apple Daily newspaper at the international airport on Sunday night on a suspected national security charge as he tried to leave the city, according to media reports.

Hong Kong police arrest former Apple Daily journalist at airport: Media

A press videographer who was traveling with President Ashraf Ghani's delegation tested positive for COVID-19, claims the Congress's Office of Attending Physician on Friday.

Afghan journalist in presidential delegation tests positive for COVID-19

US citizen Nathan Maung has been released from detention in Myanmar and is due to fly out of the country on Tuesday, his lawyer Tin Zar Oo told Reuters. A court dismissed the case against the editor at Kamayut Media after the plaintiff withdrew the lawsuit, Tin Zar Oo said on Monday.

US journalist Nathan Maung released from detention in Myanmar: Lawyer

The US government said on Saturday it would stop secretly obtaining reporters' phone and email records during investigations into political leaks, ending a practice that was often criticised as undermining press freedom.

US says it will no longer seize reporters' records in leak probes

Airlines re-routed flights to avoid Belarus's airspace on Tuesday and Belarusian planes faced a possible ban from Europe, as international outrage mounted over Minsk forcing down a jetliner and arresting a dissident journalist on board.

Airlines re-route to avoid Belarus, opposition says journalist beaten 

A Pakistani journalist has been brutally assaulted by three masked men at his home in Islamabad. Journalist Asad Ali Toor claimed that three men wearing masks broke into his house, tied him up and assaulted him, and were from the Pakistani spy agency.

Pakistan journalist Asad Ali Toor attacked by masked men at home in Islamabad

Western powers prepared to pile sanctions on Belarus and cut off its aviation links on Monday, furious after it scrambled a warplane to intercept a Ryanair aircraft and arrest a dissident journalist, an act one official denounced as 'state piracy'.

Belarus faces new sanctions from West over forced landing of plane, arrest of journalist 

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