The designations are the latest in a crackdown on media outlets authorities in Moscow see as hostile Russia has designated the Bellingcat investigative news outlet a “foreign agent” along with nine people who work for Russian language news outlets or n…
Dmitry Muratov: the Nobel winner shining light on Russia journalist murders
Co-laureate and editor of Novaya Gazeta has promised to use award to support press freedomWhen Dmitry Muratov saw a Norwegian number flash up on his phone, he assumed it was a nuisance call. Finding out he was joint laureate of this year’s Nobel peace …
Taliban to allow 200 foreigners to leave on charter flights
Departures will be among first international flights to take off from Kabul airport since end of US-led evacuationTwo hundred Americans and other foreigners who remain in Afghanistan were expected to depart the country on charter flights from Kabul on …
Afghan journalists win right to come to Britain after media appeal
Foreign secretary agrees to visa waivers for group of 200 but British Council staff still in limbo More than 200 Afghan journalists who worked with the British media are to be granted access to the UK after an appeal by a coalition of British newspaper…
Reporter killed in Veracruz – the fifth murder of a journalist in Mexico this year
Jacinto Romero Flores had received threats after he reported on allegations of abuses by Veracruz policeA radio reporter in the Mexican Gulf coast state of Veracruz has been shot and killed, becoming at least the fifth Mexican journalist to be murdered…
Open letter urges Boris Johnson to act on promise and evacuate Afghan journalists
The Guardian and other UK media demand action for those who have helped report from Afghanistan• UK media repeat call for evacuation of Afghan colleaguesDear prime minister and foreign secretary,When British media organisations wrote to you earlier thi…
UK news media repeat call to evacuate Afghan journalists
PM and foreign secretary asked to rapidly ensure safety of those who worked for British mediaOpen letter urges Boris Johnson to make good on promiseBritish media organisations have again urged the government to evacuate Afghan journalists and translato…
Daphne Caruana Galizia murder: life term sought for alleged mastermind
Malta’s attorney general formally lays charges against businessman Yorgen Fenech over journalist killingMalta’s attorney general has called for a life sentence for the businessman Yorgen Fenech for allegedly masterminding the murder of the journalist D…
‘We see silence filled with fear’: female Afghan journalists plead for help
Women in media in Kabul tell of trying to destroy traces of their identity as they brace for Taliban retributionWhen president Ashraf Ghani slipped out of Afghanistan with no warning, he took with him any glimpse of hope left for the nation’s women – e…
‘Saddam Hussein’s spies in London laid a trap – and sent my son Farzad to his death’
Nosrat Bazoft, mother of the Observer reporter executed by the tyrant in 1990, reveals for the first time how the unreported theft of a briefcase of documents on a secret Iraqi weapon may have sealed her son’s fate.Leaning back in a loose cotton shirt …