Turkey violated the rights of a prominent journalist by denying her access to information into corruption allegations against four ministers in the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the European Court of Human Rights said Tuesday.
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A Sixth Circuit panel took just three days to decide a Memphis reporter’s First Amendment claims were mooted when the city implemented a new system to alert news outlets about announcements and events.
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An NGO filed a case against a Saudi general in a Paris court on Friday, accusing him of being responsible for the torture of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, its lawyer said.
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A journalist claims Memphis refused to add her to its press notification list after negative coverage of its mayor and says her free speech claims are not mooted by the city’s introduction of a new alert system.
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The Ninth Circuit awarded attorney fees to a Daily Beast journalist in a Freedom of Information Act case in which he won the release of government records related to the alleged surveillance of President Trump and his advisers during the 2016 election.
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The ruling from Europe’s human rights court is seen as a win for investigative journalists across the continent.
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More than two dozen Hungarian media outlets on Wednesday sent an open letter to the government demanding greater transparency and access to hospitals for journalists covering the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Europe’s human rights court said Malta didn’t violate the rights of a businessman accused of masterminding the killing of a journalist when he was held in jail for three months while proceedings against him were suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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After facing months of scrutiny over the release of an elderly inmate during the coronavirus pandemic, Virginia’s parole board chair says a Richmond TV station smeared her in its coverage of the scandal.
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A federal court in California granted the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s motion to dismiss an antitrust suit brought by a Norwegian entertainment journalist and another journalist who challenged their exclusion from the professional association and claimed the “preferential treatment” given to the group by Hollywood studios “requires open membership to all ‘qualified’ applicants.”
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Two more journalists were detained in Myanmar on Friday, part of the junta’s intensifying efforts to choke off information about resistance to last month’s coup.
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Biden’s preference to handle the gruesome slaying diplomatically opens questions about future recalibration of the U.S.-Saudi relationship.
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Police in Myanmar fired rubber bullets and tear gas at protesters in the country’s two largest cities and elsewhere on Friday, as authorities continued their harsh crackdown on opponents of last month’s military coup.
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Jurors found the newspaper reporter not guilty of criminal charges filed after she was arrested while covering a racial justice demonstration last year.
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The reporter on trial and her colleague testified they did not hear officers’ orders for protesters to disperse and repeatedly identified themselves as members of the press.
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Prosecutors say police had cause for arresting a reporter for failing to leave scene of a violent demonstration, but defense lawyers say she was just doing her job covering a protest.
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A Turkish court trying 26 Saudi suspects in absentia for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Thursday refused to admit a US report blaming the kingdom’s crown prince for the killing.
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British police said Thursday that they will not launch a criminal investigation into the journalist Martin Bashir over his 1995 interview with Princess Diana.
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Associated Press journalist Thein Zaw is one of six members of the media charged with violating a public order law, a lawyer said Tuesday.
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A court in Belarus handed a six-month prison sentence Tuesday to Katsiaryna Barysevich, a journalist for the independent Tut.by online news portal, on charges of revealing personal data in her report on the death of protester Raman Bandarenka.
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