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It is the second Hong Kong outlet closed after a police raid and facing charges of sedition after the 'Apple Daily'. After more than 200 uniformed and plainclothes officers searched the newsroom and detained seven of its employees, the Hong Kong pro-democracy outlet 'Stand News' announced its closure on Wednesday, in one more example of the constant suffocation of freedom press in the region. It is the second Hong Kong newspaper to cease its activity after a police raid after the 'Apple Daily' case. Early in the morning, the media reported through its Facebook account that the police were conducting raids on the homes of several officials of the newspaper. This is the case of the editor of 'Stand News' and president of the Hong Kong Journalists Association, Ronson Chan, who, although he was not arrested, was questioned at the police station and is accused - like those arrested - of the crime of "conspiring" to issue "a seditious publicatio...

Much of the media has been closed after the Taliban came to power. Most of the women in the industry have lost their jobs. Since the Taliban came to power, 43 percent of the media in Afghanistan has been shut down. This is the result of a study by the non-governmental organization Reporters Without Borders and the organization of independent journalists in Afghanistan Ajia. Of 543 media that were registered in mid-August, only 312 remained at the end of November, Reporters Without Borders said.  Four months ago there were at least ten private media outlets in most Afghan provinces some regions are practically without local media Above all, the Taliban are pushing journalists out of their jobs In the capital region of Kabul, where media concentration was highest before the Taliban came to power, 51 percent of media companies closed. Of 148 press organs before mid-August, 72 were still working at the end of November. 'That Is Now The Afghans' Problem! Most employees in the indust...

The journalist Danny Fenster was actually sentenced to eleven years in prison. But US diplomats negotiated his release with Myanmar's military junta. The US journalist Danny Fenster, who has been detained in Myanmar for five and a half months , has been released unexpectedly. He was released from custody after a "private humanitarian visit" by former US diplomat Bill Richardson in the crisis country and personal negotiations with junta leader Min Aung Hlaing, it said in a statement. Fenster had only been sentenced to eleven years in prison a few days ago. "This is the day you hope will come if you do this job," said Richardson, who has brokered hostage-taking in the past. Fenster, a senior editor of the English-language magazine Frontier Myanmar, was arrested at Yangon airport in late May just before the flight to the United States. Since then he has been in Insein Prison, from which there have been repeated reports of torture. His actual conviction was on three...

He attributes different crimes to Danny Fenster, including violating a law that punishes anyone who tries to delegitimize the military junta. A court in Burma (Myanmar) sentenced American journalist Danny Fenster to 11 years in prison on Friday for various crimes, including violating a law that punishes anyone who tries to delegitimize the military junta. According to the Frontier news portal, for which Fenster worked, the journalist has been sentenced to three years for violating said law, another three for illegal association and five years for breaking immigration law. In addition to these charges, Fenster, who was arrested in May while trying to leave the country, was charged this week with sedition and terrorism, which could extend his sentence if found guilty. Frontier said the charges are based on the accusation that he was working for the Myanmar Now newspaper, outlawed by the military junta after the February 1 coup, but the journalist had left the outlet in July 2020 to join ...