Niloufar Hamedi, who broke the news of Iranian woman Mahsa Amini’s death in 2022 while in police custody for wearing her headscarf too loose, and Elaheh Mohammadi, who wrote about Amini’s funeral, were sentenced to seven and six years in prison, respectively, on charges including collaborating with the U.S. government. CBC | World News
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Israeli strike kills 2 Palestinian journalists in Gaza, officials say
An Israeli airstrike on a car near Rafah in southern Gaza on Sunday killed two Palestinian journalists who were reporting, according to health officials in Gaza and the journalists’ union. CBC | World News
Read More »Journalists are dying at an alarming rate as Israel bombards Gaza and southern Lebanon
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Read More »BBC launches urgent probe into seven journalists after they ‘backed Hamas’
BBC bosses are investigating claims reporters from the corporation’s Arabic service liked social media posts praising Hamas. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »Israeli shelling kills Reuters videographer in Lebanon, 6 other journalists injured
An Israeli shell landed among a group of international journalists covering clashes on the border in south Lebanon, killing a Reuters videographer and leaving six other journalists injured. CBC | World News
Read More »China throws U.S. journalists out of the country
China withdrew the press credentials of American journalists at three U.S. newspapers on Wednesday, intensifying a bitter fight between the world’s top two economies over the spread of coronavirus and press freedoms. CBC | World News
Read More »BBC crisis: Top journalists face social media crackdown after complaints of political bias
BBC JOURNALISTS could be forced to ditch their Twitter accounts under new rules being considered by senior executives after the broadcaster came under fire for biased reporting throughout the general election campaign. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »Malta businessman charged in journalist’s car bomb killing
One of Malta’s wealthiest men, Yorgen Fenech, was charged in a Valletta court on Saturday with complicity to murder in the car bomb killing of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017. CBC | World News
Read More »Top Malta officials resign in broadening scandal over journalist’s murder
A top aide to Malta’s prime minister resigned Tuesday and was questioned by police investigating the murder of a prominent journalist, while two government ministers also stood aside in a widening scandal rocking the European Union’s smallest state. CBC | World News
Read More »1 year after Khashoggi disappeared at Saudi Consulate, mourners mark journalist’s killing
Activists and friends of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi met near Saudi Arabia’s Consulate in Istanbul on Wednesday to mourn the first-year anniversary of his disappearance, allegedly at the hands of Saudi agents. CBC | World News
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