Hungarian plan to target foreign influence fuels NGO and media fears
Campaigners say ‘sovereignty’ law is further step by Viktor Orbán to silence critics and solidify control Hungarian rights advocates have raised fears over new legislation...
Category : Press freedom
Exiled Russian journalist hacked using NSO Group spyware
Galina Timchenko, head of media outlet declared ‘undesirable’ by Moscow, targeted in February while living in Berlin An award-winning Russian journalist living in exile in...
US ambassador to Russia says jailed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in ‘good health’
Ambassador Lynne Tracey was allowed to meet the journalist in a Moscow jail in her second such visit since his arrest in March Russia has...
Authors leave Hungarian publisher in protest at sale to Orbán-linked college
Libri Group’s takeover by Mathias Corvinus Collegium raises fears of crackdown on literary freedoms The takeover of Hungary’s largest publishing house and bookstore chain by...
Draft EU plans to allow spying on journalists are dangerous, warn critics
Move to allow spyware to be placed on reporters’ phones would have a ‘chilling effect’, say media experts Draft legislation published by EU leaders that...
Moscow court rules US reporter accused of spying must remain in detention
US ambassador says she is ‘extremely disappointed’ at decision not to release WSJ journalist Evan Gershkovich A Moscow court has ruled that the Wall Street...
Italian government accused of exerting ‘ruthless’ influence at state broadcaster
Source claims Giorgia Meloni’s coalition seeking to ‘cancel Italy’s antifascism footprints’ amid series of high-profile Rai departures Sources at the Italian state broadcaster, Rai, have...
Belarus jails senior staff at independent news site in crackdown on Lukashenko critics
Twelve-year sentences for the women condemned as president’s ‘revenge’ while UN report accuses country of possible crimes against humanity Belarus has handed long jail terms...
Russia outlaws Meduza in attempt to stamp out independent news
Outlet declared ‘undesirable’, with journalists, sources and donors facing threat of prosecution Russia has declared the news outlet Meduza an “undesirable organisation”, in effect outlawing...
Twitter’s suspension of journalists sets ‘dangerous precedent’, UN warns
Pressure grows on Elon Musk as EU says social media platform could face sanctions over suspensions The United Nations is “very disturbed” by Twitter’s abrupt...
