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#press-freedom

Officers shoved amNewYork's police bureau chief, Dean Moses, as Moses was documenting the detention of an immigrant who had arrived for a hearing at 26 Federal Plaza. According to Moses, agents shoved Associated Press freelancer Olga Fedorova to the floor, at which point L. Vural Elibol of the Anadolu Agency also fell to the ground and sustained what appeared to be a serious injury.

A local paper whose journalists have been ostracised by a Reform UK council is taking legal action, arguing the move is a breach of its right to free expression. The Nottingham Post, and its online site Nottinghamshire Live, has been barred from speaking to the council's leader and removed from media mailing lists by the Reform-led Nottinghamshire county council. The council's leader, Mick Barton, took exception to a story about splits in his group over local government reorganisation plans.

In a clip seen millions of times, Vance singled out The Nation in a dog whistle to his far-right followers. Predictably, a torrent of abuse followed. To correct the record on Vance's false claims about the source of our funding: The Nation is proudly reader-supported by progressives like you who support independent journalism and won't be intimidated by those in power.

When former lawyer Zhang Zhan posted hundreds of videos from Wuhan during the chaotic early months of the COVID-19 outbreak, she became one of China's most prominent citizen journalists. Jailed in 2020 for "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" a charge Chinese authorities often use against journalists and activists she was sentenced recently to another four years for the same offense.

My cell is painted green, the same colour we once used in the newsroom. Two benches and a table are bolted to the floor. Nothing moves. The bed is narrow, but I haven't fallen out yet. When I was free, but already expecting arrest, I used to joke that prison would give me the time I always lacked finally, I could read.

On September 6, a Delhi court sided with Indian industry conglomerate Adani Enterprises and ordered an injunction against nine journalists and digital platforms restricting them from publishing and distributing content Adani considered "unverified and defamatory." The gag order applies to some of India's most followed journalists and content creators, such as Ravish Kumar, Dhruv Rathee, Paranjoy Guha Thakurtha, and Abhisar Sharma. The also court ordered immediate takedown of media content, including nearly 140 YouTube videos and over 80 Instagram posts from prominent news outlets.

Zhang, 42, is thought to have stood trial in Shanghai on Friday on a charge of picking quarrels and provoking trouble, a charge often used in China to target critics of the government. Western diplomats were reportedly turned away from observing the trial. Reporters Without Borders (RSF), a media freedom NGO, said on Saturday that Zhang had been sentenced to four years in prison.

For generations, Pentagon reporters have provided the public with vital information about how wars are fought, how defense dollars are spent, and how decisions are made that put American lives at risk. That work has only been possible because reporters could seek out facts without needing government permission. If the news about our military must first be approved by the government, then the public is no longer getting independent reporting. It is getting only what officials want them to see. That should alarm every American.

In the eight months since becoming chair of the Federal Communications Commission, however, Carr has waged war against the free speech of those who have reported on, criticized, or satirized the president. And Carr has the president's ear, according to a person who knows both men and requested anonymity because they did not have authorization to speak to the media.

Zhang Zhan, who was released from prison in May 2024 after serving four years behind bars, is expected to go on trial on Friday at the Shanghai Pudong New Area people's courtfor picking quarrels and provoking trouble, a catch-all term used to target government critics. Antoine Bernard, a director of advocacy and assistance for Reporters Without Borders (RSF), a press freedom NGO, said Zhang's trial this week was not only prosecution, it's persecution.

Elmar Thevessen, the US correspondent for Germany's public broadcast TV channel Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), talked about the mood in the US after the murder of influencer Charlie Kirk on his channel's talk show "Markus Lanz" last week. During the show, Thevessen made one comment that caused a stir. He said Kirk had advocated stoning homosexuals. However, this is not true, which was admitted by the ZDF afterwards.

Donald Trump has sued the New York Times for, well, reporting on Trump. Rather than charging the Times with any specific libelous act, Trump's lawsuit is just another of his angry bloviations. The lawsuit says he's moving against one of the worst and most degenerate newspapers in the History of our Country, becoming a virtual mouthpiece' for the Radical Left Democrat Party. And so on.

She'd probably go after people like you! Because you treat me so unfairly! It's hate! You have a lot of hate in your heart! Would that be appropriate? Karl replied. Maybe they'll come after ABC. Well, ABC paid me $16 million recently for a form of hate speech, right? Your company paid me $16 million for a form of hate speech, so maybe they'll have to go after you, Trump added.

At the same time a long-running family feud among Rupert Murdoch and his children was settled with a deal that will assure Fox News and other powerful media outlets run by the family will retain their conservative bent. The moves deepened concerns among many US media critics and observers of authoritarianism that press freedoms in the US were undergoing capitulation to the Trump administration's rightwing authoritarian leanings.

"We are immensely grateful to President [Donald] Trump for securing the release of yet another brave RFE/RL journalist unfairly detained by Belarusian authorities," RFE/RL President and CEO Steve Capus said in a statement from Vilnius.

The police never gave us an answer, and said they would put together a team to look for him.