Tag: journalist
BBC’s top ex-host guilty of indecent pics of kids
LONDON: Former British TV presenter Huw Edwards, the long-time face of BBC‘s flagship news programme, pleaded guilty Wednesday to three counts of making indecent pictures…
Iraqi Kurdistan demonstration in support of jailed journalist
SULAIMANIYAH: Hundreds of people protested in Iraq‘s autonomous Kurdistan region on Sunday in support of a jailed journalist hit with a new sentence before he…
Dissident pulled off plane by Belarus gets 8 years in prison
TALLINN: A court in Belarus convicted a dissident journalist who was arrested after being pulled off a commercial flight that was diverted to the country…
Chinese ‘citizen journalist’ who shared Covid info in 2020 to be freed after 3 years
HONG KONG: Chinese authorities were preparing on Sunday to release a man who disappeared three years ago after publicising videos of overcrowded hospitals and bodies…
Russia denies US consular visit to jailed journalist
MOSCOW: Moscow said Thursday it had denied an upcoming consular visit to detained US reporter Evan Gershkovich in retaliation for Washington not issuing visas to…
US reporter denied bail at first public Russian court hearing
Moscow: US reporter Evan Gershkovich appeared at a Moscow court on Tuesday, in the first partly open hearing since his arrest for alleged espionage, in…
Mali journalist reported missing found ‘safe and sound’
BAMAKO: A Malian journalist who vanished following a press conference he organised last week has been found “safe and sound”, according to a crisis group…