Topic: journalist
UN rights body demands release of jailed Indian journalist Rupesh Kumar Singh
United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders Mary Lawlor on Thursday said that journalist Rupesh Kumar Singh has been falsely charged as retaliation for his work on human rights.
Twitter suspends account of Muslim journalist Ahmed Khabeer
Ahmed Khabeer, a young Muslim journalist who have been reporting on human rights abuses and Islamophobia in India, was suspended from Twitter.
67 journalists killed, 375 jailed in 2022 for doing their job: Report
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) said on Friday that 67 journalists and media workers have been killed around the world so far this year, up from 47 in 2021.
DIGIPUB slams The Wire raid, says it cannot become tool to worsen fraught state of journalism
DIGIPUB News India Foundation, a body of digital-only news ventures and freelance journalists, has strongly condemned in no uncertain terms the searches against the editors and reporter of The Wire, which mainly serve the purpose of criminalising and creating a chilling effect against the profession of journalism in India.
Iranian woman journalist, who broke news of Mahsa Amini’s death, is in jail now
Niloofar Hamedi, an Iranian journalist who broke the news of the custodial death of Mahsa Amini, is in jail now.
US journalist who made Shaheen Bagh documentary, deported from Delhi airport
US citizen and journalist associated with American news and entertainment company Vice Angad Singh was allegedly deported from the Delhi airport Wednesday night.