There is incessant increase in the number of abuse of media rights on the African continent including deaths of practitioners with DR Congo, Mali, and Zimbabwe, Guinea cited among the countries censuring and flouting the purveyors’ rights to disseminate news without duress. The International Press Institute (IPI), a renowned watchdog, has
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Don’t Gag Press Freedom, RSF urges Zimbabwe
Global media watchdog, Reporters without Borders (RSF) has urged authorities in Zimbabwe to guarantee unwavering freedom to Internet and social media access as over 6 million people go to the polls in the Southern African state. In recent months, the Emmerson Mnangagwa Government has slapped restrictive measures to foreign media houses,
Press freedom in Asia under siege
In Asia, freedom of the press continues to erode, especially in authoritarian regimes where journalists are often targeted in broad daylight. More and more, journalists are put behind bars or face strategic lawsuits against public participation, otherwise known as SLAPP, for reporting what’s actually happening on the ground. Over the past three
Cambodia Media Under Siege
Revocation of operating licences for media houses, threats on journalists’ with dissenting voices coupled with self-censorship are among some of the threats on the independence of the industry in Cambodiaahead of the 23 July elections, according to reports. Media right campaigners, the Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM), Cambodian Journalists Alliance
Arrest of Indian Muslim journalist sparks widespread outrage
Police in India's capital New Delhi arrested a Muslim journalist Monday evening for allegedly hurting religious sentiments in what many have slammed as the latest example of shrinking press freedoms under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government. Mohammed Zubair, one of the co-founders of fact-checking website Alt News, was arrested over a
Zambia looks back to Cyber Act: Mutati
It came hastily barely months before Presidential and general elections in Zambia, arguably to stifle press and other freedoms and civil liberties, but the new Government believes its enactment was not done in good faith as it segregates some sections of society, media and some politicians. Technology and Science Minister Felix
Zimbabwe’s press freedom, one step forward, three steps backward
For international journalist Jeffery Moyo, doing his job could land him in prison if Zimbabwe authorities have their way. “Journalism is a crime in Zimbabwe, and the regime is reactive to independent journalism,” says Moyo, an international correspondent for the New York Times and the Inter Press Service (IPS). Criminalising journalism Moyo (37)
61 Mexican journalists killed
If investigative journalism or press freedom is criminal, then, the cost of practising is becoming risky as evidenced by the killing to date of over 55 practitioners in Mexico, fuelling concern by watchdogs over the unabated brutality. Since the early 1980s, journalists have either been killed through stab wound, imprisoned, reported
State-media-ownership threatens press freedom: study
Increasing state-media ownership, repressive regimes, regulatory and financial pressure, and public denunciations of honest journalism are some factors helping to cloud out media freedom globally, a clarion call to embracing social media platforms. Media freedom globally has come under siege, both in emerging and influential democracies as populist leadership seek to
Gunmen ransack Capital FM as state seeks to silence ‘critical’ media
Press freedom in Africa remains under threat with the ransacking of the controversial Capital FM television in Guinea Bissau being the latest incident, fueling concerns from media watchdogs on the commitment of governments to harness the media development. On Monday, unknown gunmen in the capital ransacked the private radio station in