Netanyahu was quick to single out Qatar-based channel Al Jazeera, with which his government has a long-running feud that predates Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza. The broadcaster slammed the ban as "part of a series of systematic Israeli attacks to silence Al Jazeera", including the killing of one of...

Reporter Ismail Abu Omar's life is at risk and cameraman Ahmad Matar was severely wounded when the pair were hit in Gaza's southern city of Rafah. The network said the strike was a "fully fledged crime which adds to Israel's crime against journalists" and was aimed at preventing reporters covering...

Scenes of Dahdouh mourning his family and fleeing on foot from Gaza City have been broadcast globally over the weeks since war erupted between Hamas fighters and Israel on October 7. Speaking to an AFP journalist in southern Gaza, the 53-year-old said he had crossed the Rafah border post with...

Israeli army said Mustafa Thuria was identified in a document found by troops in Gaza to be a member of Hamas's Gaza City Brigade, while Dahdouh was identified as a "terrorist" belonging to Islamic Jihad. The army statement included a copy of a document it said was a list of...

Footage of the men, including Kahlout, stripped down to their underwear, with some of them appearing to hand over weapons, was last month aired by Israeli media, which reported the alleged surrender of Hamas fighters. The clips sparked outrage on social media, with Hamas denying the individuals were members of...

Witnesses told AFP that two rockets were fired at the car -- one hit the front of the vehicle and the other hit Hamza who was sitting next to the driver. The Israeli army told AFP that it had "struck a terrorist who operated an aircraft that posed a threat...

Samer Abu Daqqa's body, bearing his bullet-proof vest and helmet, was carried through a crowd in the city of Khan Yunis before being buried in a grave dug by fellow journalists. His colleague, Gaza bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh, was wounded in the same attack. Dahdouh had lost his wife and two...

AFP and other international media groups had written to Blinken in late October urging his help in protecting journalists on the ground in Gaza after several were killed since the outbreak of fighting. "The United States has and will continue to underscore with Israel, and with all countries, that journalists...

A local mayor and Lebanese state media corroborated the journalists' account of the cross-border incident, which came exactly a month after deadly strikes blamed on Israel hit a press group near Alma al-Shaab in southern Lebanon. Around a dozen journalists from several media outlets were on a tour to inspect...

Jelassi argued that such "methodical censorship" aims to remove the voices of the opposition or civil society organizations from broadcasts or the press.

The rise of disinformation and hate speech threatens truth, while journalists continue to face harassment, intimidation, and imprisonment, highlight UN officials and media outlets.

The new law would ban Algerian media outlets from receiving funding or "direct and indirect material aid" from abroad, under threat of criminal prosecution including fines of up to roughly $15,000. Dual nationals will be prevented from owning all or part of media outlets and journalists working for foreign media...

Just weeks after the BBC aired a documentary examining Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's role in deadly 2002 sectarian riots, tax inspectors descended on the broadcaster's offices. Modi's party says the two are not connected, but rights groups say the BBC raids this week show the parlous state of press...

In a joint statement on Tuesday, 28 organisations said ISIE had "targeted freedom of expression to the point where it was carrying out censorship against media organisations, in a blatant violation of the law". The organisations -- including the SNJT journalists' union, the Tunisian Association for Rights and Freedoms and...

Over a decade since the country's revolution that unseated dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, opposition parties have urged a boycott of the poll, which they say is part of a "coup" against the only democracy to have emerged from the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings. The election for the new...

Press advocates say the new law could allow authorities to shut down the internet, preventing the public from hearing about exiled Turkish mob boss Sedat Peker's claims about the government's alleged dirty affairs. Or, they say, the government could restrict access to social media as they did after a November...

Most Turkish newspapers and television channels fell under the control of government officials and their business allies during a sweeping crackdown that followed a failed coup in 2016. But social networks and internet-based media remained largely free of oversight -- much to the growing annoyance of Erdogan.

Known for his criticism of the authorities, Monjib was sentenced in January last year to 12 months in prison, after a trial opened in 2015 and was repeatedly postponed.

Whether it is the killing or state-sponsored arraignment of journalists or the closure of defiant media organizations, press freedom is under huge stress around the world.

Predicting the winner is a giant guessing game, as no shortlist is made public and the nominees' identities are kept secret for 50 years.

Authorities had given the channel a final warning on March 13, over its "coverage of Friday marches"  Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has ranked Algeria 146 out of 180 countries  in its 2020 World Press Freedom Index Algeria canceled the accreditation of France 24, the communications ministry said Sunday, a day...