Category: Press Freedom
Intelligence files confirm US journalist was jailed by Assad regime
Intelligence files have confirmed that the missing US journalist Austin Tice was jailed by the regime of former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, the BBC reported on [more…]
US journalist jailed by Assad regime, intelligence files reveal
Intelligence files have confirmed that the missing US journalist Austin Tice was jailed by the regime of former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, the BBC reported [more…]
Palestinian journalist killed by an Israeli drone while hospitalised
Palestinian journalist Hassan Islayeh was killed by an Israeli drone strike while he was being treated at the Nasser Hospital of Khan Younis on May [more…]
Hospitalised Palestinian journalist killed by Israeli strike
Palestinian journalist Hassan Islayeh was killed by an Israeli drone strike while he was being treated at the Nasser Hospital of Khan Younis on May [more…]
Pope urges for the release of jailed journalists
In an address to journalists in Rome, Pope Leo XIV announced the churches solidarity with jailed journalists who were put behind bars for attempting to [more…]
Palestinian Pulitzer winner’s social media suspended, stirring outcry
The owner of Facebook and Instagram, Meta, temporarily suspended the account of a Palestinian poet and essayist on May 5th, hours after he earned a [more…]
Palestinian poet wins Pulitzer for reporting on Gaza conflict
A Palestinian poet and essayist is one of the Pulitzer prize winners for 2025, due to a number of articles he produced about Israel’s military [more…]
Pulitzer winners include Palestinian poet who wrote about Gaza war
A Palestinian poet and essayist is one of the Pulitzer prize winners for 2025, due to a number of articles he produced about Israel’s military [more…]
Israeli forces arrest five Palestinians, including a journalist
Israeli forces arrested five Palestinians from Jenin early on April 29th, including a journalist, after conducting several overnight raids, according to Middle East Eye via [more…]
Paramount criticised following restrictions on political content
Paramount has come under scrutiny following the resignation of 60 Minutes executive producer Bill Owens, after the company meddled with the programme’s political content, Middle [more…]
Five Palestinians arrested by Israeli forces including journalist
Five Palestinians were arrested from Jenin early on April 29th by Israeli forces, including a journalist, after several raids took place during the night, according [more…]
Paramount’s content control on Gaza causes producer to resign
Paramount has come under scrutiny following the resignation of 60 Minutes executive producer Bill Owens, Middle East Eye reported on April 28th. Owens left the [more…]
France’s journalists rally against killing of Palestinian reporters
Around 200 journalists from France rallied in Paris and Marseille on April 16th in protest against Israel’s killing of Palestinian reporters and to show solidarity [more…]
Journalists killed in Gaza conflict greater than in any war since 1800s
A recent study from Brown University revealed Israel’s war on Gaza has claimed the lives of 232 journalists so far, a figure that outnumbers similar [more…]
Journalists killed in Gaza greater than in any war since 1800s
The number of journalists killed in Gaza by Israel is far greater than similar deaths in any armed conflict since the civil war of the [more…]
Deaths of journalists in Gaza reaches 209 following Israeli strike
The amount of journalists killed in the conflict in Gaza has reached 209, according to the Government Media Office in Gaza, after the death of [more…]
AFP photographer covering Turkey protests freed from jail
An AFP photographer who was arrested covering Turkey’s most extreme protests in over 10 years was released from an Istanbul jail, according to AFP correspondents, [more…]
Turkey ramps up media clampdown due to coverage of protests
Turkey ramped up its clampdown on the media coverage of protests since the mayor of Istanbul’s arrest, deporting a journalist from the BBC and enforcing [more…]
Al Jazeera reporter among two journalists killed in Gaza attacks
An Al Jazeera correspondent and another Palestinian journalist were killed in separate attacks on Gaza, raising the total number of press workers killed in the [more…]
Al Jazeera correspondent one of two journalists killed by Israel in Gaza
Two Palestinian journalists have been killed in different attacks on Gaza, which brings the death toll of press workers killed in Gaza to 208, since [more…]