India

December 3, 2024

Indian Fact-Checker Mohammed Zubair Hit with New Sedition Charge Under Modernized Law

December 3, 2024 – India – Mohammed Zubair, the co-founder of Alt News, India’s prominent fact-checking website, faces renewed legal peril. On December 3, 2024, Uttar Pradesh police […]
November 16, 2024

After Two Years in Insein Prison, Photojournalist Kyaw Swar Tun Freed from Myanmar Jail

November 15, 2024 – India/Myanmar – Myanmar’s military-run Insein Prison, notorious for torture and inhuman conditions, saw the release of photojournalist Kyaw Swar Tun on November 14, 2024, after […]
November 14, 2024

Bihar Journalists Arrested for Reporting on Floods and Religious Conversions

November 14, 2024 – India – Two journalists from Bihar—Mithun Mishra and Manish Kashyap—faced arrest and legal retaliation for reporting on flood mismanagement and alleged religious […]
October 22, 2024

Sri Lanka’s Mullaitivu Press Club Urges International Probe into Journalist Killings

October 22, 2024 – India – The Mullaitivu Press Club in northern Sri Lanka called for an international, “judicially empowered” investigation into the killings and enforced […]