CANBERRA, Australia — Australian journalist Cheng Lei says she spent more than three years in detention in China for breaking an embargo with a television broadcast on a state-run TV network. Cheng’s first television interview since she was freed was broadcast in Australia on Tuesday almost a week after she returned to her mother and … Read more
NAIROBI, Kenya — The widow of a prominent Pakistani journalist who was killed a year ago in Kenya filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against an elite Kenyan police unit she accuses of the wrongful death of her husband. Javeria Siddique said she filed the lawsuit in Nairobi to get justice for her husband Arshad Sharif, … Read more
Quinn Mitchell is an aspiring journalist known for facing off against Ron DeSantis. The governor gave an uncomfortable response and avoided answering Mitchell’s question in June. Mitchell was reportedly thrown out of a G.O.P. event that DeSantis was attending on Friday. The 15-year-old aspiring journalist Quinn Mitchell, known for his pointed questioning of Florida Governor … Read more
Comment on this storyComment BEIRUT — A Reuters videographer was killed and six other journalists were wounded Friday in southern Lebanon when the area they were reporting from was struck by Israeli shelling, according to two colleagues who spoke to the injured journalists in the hospital, as well as an eyewitness. Charbel Francis, a cameraman … Read more
Australian journalist Cheng Lei has flown back to Melbourne after being released from about three years of detention in China, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said, in a major sign of diplomatic warming after years of tensions. Albanese said Wednesday he had spoken to the former detainee in Melbourne, and she had been reunited with her … Read more
Comment on this storyComment SYDNEY — Australian journalist Cheng Lei has returned home after three years of detention in China, the Australian government announced Wednesday. Cheng was detained during an extraordinarily turbulent period in China-Australia relations under a conservative government, and has now been released as the current center-left leadership tries to repair ties with … Read more
An opaque legal case against a Florida journalist is alarming press advocates, who see it as a troubling example of draconian government overreach. Teenage Cybercrime Gang LAPSUS$ Strikes Again In May, former Deadspin editor Timothy Burke had his home raided by the FBI. Burke says federal agents seized “phones, computers, hard drives, notebooks, and his … Read more
Comment on this storyComment Victoria Roshchyna, a Ukrainian freelance journalist, has been missing since she went on a reporting trip to Russian-occupied territory in Ukraine two months ago, raising concerns among family, colleagues and advocates that Russia could be holding her captive. Roshchyna was last heard from on Aug. 3, according to the International Women’s … Read more
LGBTQ+ groups are hailing the 60-day jail sentence a court in Switzerland gave to a writer and commentator for deriding a journalist as a “fat lesbian” and other critical remarks French-Swiss far-right writer Alain Soral, center, leaves the courthouse after his appeal trial for homophobia against a journalist in Lausanne, Switzerland, Wednesday, September 27, 2023. … Read more
ISLAMABAD — A prominent Pakistani television journalist who went missing more than four months ago after being arrested by police returned home Monday after being freed, police and his colleagues said. It is widely believed that Imran Riaz Khan, known for publicly supporting jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan, was being held by security agencies. … Read more