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ANKARAChina on Wednesday said the number of Chinese journalists stationed in neighboring India is about to "drop to zero," as New Delhi still has not renewed the visa of the last Chinese journalist in the country."Chinese journalists have suffered unfair and discriminatory treatment in India for a long time, ...

Women journalists in many countries are threatened with physical assault, death threats, abuse and rape for investigating the activities of powerful officials, exposing government wrongdoing and corruption; A survey conducted by the International Center for Journalists and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) of 714 women ...

In every corner of the world, journalists are intimidated and locked up at distressing rates and far too many are killed just for doing their jobs. On this World Press Freedom Day, there is much to be concerned about given the threats that journalists are facing daily. There is ...

When I was employed in Dawn in the mid-2000s, a colleague and I would call each other following a violent incident in the city to alert each other about routes to take to keep us safe. Later, we would discuss the incident in terms of where we thought the ...

New Delhi/Beijing: India on Thursday hoped that Chinese authorities would facilitate continued presence of Indian journalists in China. The comments by External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi in Delhi came days after China decided to “freeze” visas of two Indian journalists. “There are Chinese journalists who have valid Indian ...

Activists this week described the March 20 arrest of Kashmiri freelance journalist Irfan Mehraj for association with a Kashmir-based human rights group as another in a series of instances of Indian government punishment of journalists and activists who expose rights abuses in Indian-administered Kashmir. Mehraj was arrested by India's ...

ISLAMABAD —  A bomb blast tore through a Shiite cultural center in Afghanistan's northern Balkh province Saturday, killing a security guard and wounding at least eight people.A local police spokesman, Mohammad Asif Waziri, told VOA the blast had targeted a ceremony honoring the Afghan media in the provincial capital, ...

LONDON: The UK is failing in its mission to safeguard endangered Afghan citizens, especially journalists who are at risk of Taliban reprisal, a coalition of press freedom groups has warned. The warning comes as the government waits to release details of the next phase of its Afghan citizens’ resettlement ...

Hundreds of Afghan journalists remain stranded in increasingly “dire” circumstances as frustration mounts over the UK government’s refusal to share the latest entry criteria for its flagship resettlement programme.This weekend, a coalition of press freedom and free expression organisations, including Index on Censorship, the National Union of Journalists, PEN ...

The tweet was stark and heartbreaking.“There is no food to eat at home. I live in exile in a country which is worse than Afghanistan. I want to sell one of my kidneys if anyone wants to buy it. I have no other option.” Sami Jahish’s tweet included his ...