Like the many faced god in the TV adaptation of the book, Game of Thrones, Azerbaijan’s new Vice President, Mehriban Aliyeva, has many faces –...
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CATEGORY: Index in the Press
Press Freedom Faces ‘Unprecedented’ Threat in 2017 (Rights Info)
Journalists face an escalating risk of violence, threats and government censorship ‘like never before’, according to a report from Index on...
In Defense of Milo Yiannopoulos’s Book (Publishers Weekly)
It has been almost a year to the day since I began representing Milo Yiannopoulos as his literary agent. I have largely stayed quiet about the...
Unravelling Leveson legislation could take 15 years (Press Gazette)
Chairman of press regulator IPSO Sir Alan Moses has said unpicking legislation brought in after part one of the Leveson Inquiry, including the...
UK considers new punishments for whistleblowers and journalists to deter the next Snowden (The Verge)
The UK government is considering new laws that target whistleblowers and journalists who obtain or share state secrets. Draft legislation proposed...
The UK considers tougher prison sentences for whistleblowers (Endgadget)
The UK government is considering new proposals that would drastically increase prison sentences for individuals and journalists found guilty of...
Whistleblowers and investigative journalists will not face jail, Downing Street insists (I News)
Downing Street insisted that whistleblowers and investigative journalists will not have their freedom restricted by proposals which could result in...
Law Commission’s recommended changes to espionage laws a threat to journalists (Scottish Legal News)
Proposed changes to official secrets legislation would see the maximum prison sentence for journalists who obtain leaked official documents...
Journalists and whistleblowers face 14 years in prison for exposing leaked official secrets (Daily Mail)
Whistleblowers and journalists could face up to 14 years in prison for handling leaked official documents, under proposed legislation drawn up for...
Media workers stand with refugees (Green Left Weekly)
Eaten Fish (Ali Dorani), a 25-year-old Iranian cartoonist began a hunger strike on January 31 in Manus Island detention centre. He has now been on...
Journalists who obtain leaked official material could be sent to prison under new proposals (The Telegraph)
Campaigners have expressed outrage at new proposals that could lead to journalists being jailed for up to 14 years for obtaining leaked official...
Planned Espionage Act could jail journos and whistleblowers as spies (The Register)
Proposals in the UK for a swingeing new Espionage Act that could jail journalists as spies have been developed in haste by legal advisors, The...
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