#Press Freedom
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Articles (23)
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🇺🇸 Judge says Justice Department may not search Washington Post reporter's seized devices
[USA]
A judge told the Justice Department in a Tuesday filing that it cannot search a Washington Post reporter’s seized devices. In the filing, U.S. Magistrate Judge William Porter said the U.S. government ...
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🇺🇸 Court Rules Against Justice Dept. Search of Reporter’s Computers
[USA]
The judge said the court itself would search the devices, which were seized from a Washington Post reporter’s home last month.
Related: #First Amendment, #Government Overreach, #Legal Procedure -
🇺🇸 US judge blocks search of Washington Post reporter’s devices
[USA]
Related: #National Security, #Judicial Oversight, #Government Investigations
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🇺🇸 Judge blocks Trump DOJ from reviewing Washington Post reporter's seized data
[USA]
A federal magistrate judge on Tuesday rescinded the Trump administration's ability to examine data seized from Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson last month, saying he would "conduct an independ...
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🇺🇸 Judge blocks DOJ from searching Washington Post reporter's phone and laptop
[USA]
A federal magistrate judge has blocked the DOJ from searching through a Washington Post reporter's devices after they were seized by the FBI last month, instead ruling that the court would conduct a s...
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🇺🇸 Judge bars government from 'wholesale' search of Washington Post reporter's seized devices
[USA]
Federal authorities are barred from conducting an "unsupervised, wholesale search" of electronic devices that they seized from a Washington Post reporter's Virginia home while investigating allegation...
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🇺🇸 Journalists detained while investigating U.S. deportees in Cameroon
[USA]
Four journalists and a lawyer were arrested Tuesday in Cameroon while reporting on Africans recently deported from the United States.
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🇺🇸 A Press Freedom Case in Peril, From a Lawyer Who Helped Write It
[USA]
Alan Dershowitz was present at the creation of New York Times v. Sullivan. Now he is asking the Supreme Court to revise or destroy it.
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🇺🇸 Ohio State professor placed on leave over alleged assault on cameraman
[USA]
An Ohio State University professor has been placed on administrative leave pending a campus police investigation into an allegation of assault on an independent journalist
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🇺🇸 Journalists should be standing up for one another against Trump’s attacks
[USA]
'We have three long years to go with Trump. Journalists need to start speaking up now, even at the cost of losing their credentials,' writes an L.A. Times reader.
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🇺🇸 US DOJ lawyer hit with bar complaint over search of reporter’s home
[USA]
Related: #Legal Ethics, #Government Accountability
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🇺🇸 Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in prison by Beijing-backed court
[USA]
Hong Kong democracy advocate and former media tycoon Jimmy Lai, who is 78 years old, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison by a Beijing-backed court. It is the longest sentence handed down under Ch...
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🇺🇸 Bar Complaint Filed Over Search of Washington Post Reporter’s Home
[USA]
A press group says a prosecutor broke ethics rules by not flagging a law that limits searches for reporting materials.
Related: #Legal Ethics, #Law Enforcement -
🇺🇸 Hong Kong democracy advocate Jimmy Lai's sentence raises international outcry as China defends it
[USA]
Lai was convicted of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and conspiring with others to publish seditious articles.
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🇺🇸 Jimmy Lai's son says his father's 20-year prison sentence is "devastating" but expected
[USA]
Pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Hong Kong on Monday. Lai's son, Sebastien Lai, says the sentence is "devastating but we expected it," and expresses concern f...
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🇺🇸 China sentences Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison
[USA]
Family of Jimmy Lai, a Hong Kong media tycoon and vocal critic of China's Communist rule, calls his prison sentence cruel, and the "end of justice."
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🇺🇸 Jimmy Lai’s 20-Year Sentence Follows Beijing’s Playbook on Dissent
[USA]
The sentence for the media mogul, along with long prison terms for his editors, shows how Hong Kong enforces Xi Jinping’s red lines with a new severity.
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🇺🇸 Sentence for Hong Kong's ex-publisher Jimmy Lai raises concerns as China defends it
[USA]
The sentencing of Hong Kong’s onetime media magnate Jimmy Lai is raising concerns from foreign governments and rights groups
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🇺🇸 Apple Daily Sentences Show a New Era of Media Peril in Hong Kong
[USA]
Two editors and an opinion writer from Jimmy Lai’s now-shuttered newspaper were each sentenced to 10 years in prison, a significant escalation in media prosecution in the once freewheeling city.
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🇬🇧 Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong pro-democracy figure, sentenced to 20 years in prison for national security offences
[United Kingdom]
<p>Family of media tycoon say he will ‘die a martyr behind bars’, amid widespread criticism from press freedom groups</p><p>Jimmy Lai, the media mogul and prominent pro-democracy activist, has been se...
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🇺🇸 Jimmy Lai's evolution from Hong Kong media magnate to activist in photos
[USA]
Prominent democracy advocate Jimmy Lai was a child stowaway from mainland China who rose to become Hong Kong’s onetime media magnate. Unlike other rags-to-riches tycoons who cultivated ties with...
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🇺🇸 Jimmy Lai’s 20-Year Term Follows a Familiar Chinese Pattern
[USA]
The heavy sentence for the Hong Kong publisher aligns with mainland cases where influential critics of the Communist Party have been sent to prison for many years.
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🇺🇸 Two Chinese Journalists Are Detained for Reporting on Corruption
[USA]
The move against the men, who wrote an article that was critical of a local official, demonstrates how the space for independent voices has shrunk in China.
Related: #Government Control, #Corruption, #Investigative Journalism