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The Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) chairwoman has vowed to continue to strive for the rights of journalists and press freedom. It came weeks after she was fired by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) allegedly over her decision to accept the leadership position at the embattled union. In a newsletter to HKJA members on Sunday, former WSJ reporter Selina Cheng said she did not expect her dismissal from the American newspaper last month to gain the attention of so many international media outlets and journalism groups. On July 17, Hong Kong and international media filmed Cheng leaving the US...
Hong Kong Free Press
A Moscow court sentenced exiled Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar to eight and a half years in prison in absentia for spreading “fake news” about the Russian army, as part of Russia’s intensifying crackdown on opposition media. Zygar was charged with “public dissemination of deliberately false information about the use of the armed forces of the Russian Federation,” according to the statement shared by the court. The charges were based on an Instagram post from April 2022, where Zygar accused Russian forces of committing war crimes in Bucha, Ukraine. Bucha, a suburb northwest of Kyiv, was occup...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
A Moscow court sentenced exiled Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar to eight and a half years in prison in absentia for spreading “fake news” about the Russian army, as part of Russia’s intensifying crackdown on opposition media. Zygar was charged with “public dissemination of deliberately false information about the use of the armed forces of the Russian Federation,” according to the statement shared by the court. The charges were based on an Instagram post from April 2022, where Zygar accused Russian forces of committing war crimes in Bucha, Ukraine. Bucha, a suburb northwest of Kyiv, was occup...
Kyiv Independent
A Moscow court sentenced exiled Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar to eight and a half years in prison in absentia for spreading “fake news” about the Russian army, as part of Russia’s intensifying crackdown on opposition media. Zygar was charged with “public dissemination of deliberately false information about the use of the armed forces of the Russian Federation,” according to the statement shared by the court. The charges were based on an Instagram post from April 2022, where Zygar accused Russian forces of committing war crimes in Bucha, Ukraine. Bucha, a suburb northwest of Kyiv, was occup...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
Two Ukrainian photojournalists came under Russian artillery fire on July 19 while documenting the war in Ukraine from a trench near the front line in Donetsk Oblast. Olga Kovalyova, senior project manager for the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPP), was evacuated and hospitalized after receiving three shrapnel wounds, the UAPP said in a statement. She is in stable condition. Another photographer, Vladyslav Krasnoshchok, suffered a concussion but did not require hospital treatment. "I was saved by a bulletproof vest and a helmet. The shrapnel got to a place where there wa...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
Two Ukrainian photojournalists came under Russian artillery fire on July 19 while documenting the war in Ukraine from a trench near the front line in Donetsk Oblast. Olga Kovalyova, senior project manager for the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPP), was evacuated and hospitalized after receiving three shrapnel wounds, the UAPP said in a statement. She is in stable condition. Another photographer, Vladyslav Krasnoshchok, suffered a concussion but did not require hospital treatment. "I was saved by a bulletproof vest and a helmet. The shrapnel got to a place where there wa...
Kyiv Independent
Two Ukrainian photojournalists came under Russian artillery fire on July 19 while documenting the war in Ukraine from a trench near the front line in Donetsk Oblast. Olga Kovalyova, senior project manager for the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPP), was evacuated and hospitalized after receiving three shrapnel wounds, the UAPP said in a statement. She is in stable condition. Another photographer, Vladyslav Krasnoshchok, suffered a concussion but did not require hospital treatment. "I was saved by a bulletproof vest and a helmet. The shrapnel got to a place where there wa...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
American newspaper The Wall Street Journal has terminated Hong Kong-based reporter Selina Cheng weeks after she was elected chair of the city’s embattled Hong Kong Journalist Association (HKJA), which has met with increasing pressure from authorities. Reporters on Wednesday afternoon received an invitation to a press conference at 5.30 pm about the “unreasonable decision to terminate the employment of HKJA chair Selina Cheng.” The newspaper announced in early May that it planned to move its Asia headquarters to Singapore, with layoffs of Hong Kong staff. According to Hong Kong’s Employment Ord...
Hong Kong Free Press
New York Times opinion columnist Masha A. Gessen was sentenced in absentia on July 15 by a Moscow court to eight years in prison over comments Gessen made about Russian war crimes committed in Ukraine. According to the New York Times, Gessen was convicted by the Basmanny District Court for spreading "false information" about Russia's military, having described the massacre committed by Russian Armed Forces in Bucha and neighboring communities during an interview in 2022 with a Russian journalist. Russian authorities charged the Russian-born American journalist in August 2022 - with the verdict...
Kyiv Independent
New York Times opinion columnist Masha A. Gessen was sentenced in absentia on July 15 by a Moscow court to eight years in prison over comments Gessen made about Russian war crimes committed in Ukraine. According to the New York Times, Gessen was convicted by the Basmanny District Court for spreading "false information" about Russia's military, having described the massacre committed by Russian Armed Forces in Bucha and neighboring communities during an interview in 2022 with a Russian journalist. Russian authorities charged the Russian-born American journalist in August 2022 - with the verdict...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
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