Tag: Censorship

Many jailed journalists have been held in detention without trial for lengthy periods and are suffering from ill health, media watchdog says

One held on charges of ‘picking quarrels and stirring up trouble’, an accusation often used against political activists

Public health crisis ‘being used by the worst-ranked countries to step up harassment and attacks on the media’

Transparency is a must in the face of a pandemic. But even under tamer bureaucratic conditions, gag orders abound, and whistleblowers have been punished

The nation’s army has filed several cases in recent years against reporters and news organizations covering the conflict in Rakhine

Kashmir residents unable to access information on how to deal with deadly virus

Academics and journalists walk on eggshells when writing about China because they know the Chinese Communist Party is looking over their shoulder

Exile laments pressure on his family back home

China's censorship policies have come under scrutiny amid allegations they obscured the seriousness of the outbreak

Chinese govt ‘has shown a growing willingness to use its considerable state power to suppress factual reporting’