Journalist jailings imperil a free press worldwide amid reports of life-threatening prison conditions in several countries.

Like Iran, governments worldwide rely on internet shutdowns to suppress populations, rig elections and collectively punish ...

The number of journalists imprisoned worldwide for their work was 330 in the final month of 2025, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday, the fifth consecutive year the count has exceeded ...

A total of 73 South Koreans detained in Cambodia for their alleged involvements in online scams will be brought back home ...

China, Myanmar and Israel among top jailers as press freedom groups flag prolonged detentions and mistreatment ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the Election Commission of India (ECI) is blessed with the “widest discretions” but its “deviations” while revising electoral rolls, as in the ongoing Special ...

“Autocracies and democracies alike are locking up ​journalists to quash dissent and stifle independent reporting,” CPJ CEO ...

The three states were granted statehood on this day in 1972, weeks after the passage of two laws, the North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act and the North-Eastern Council Act. We recall ...

A Taiwanese man touted as a major foreign investor in the Georgian city of Batumi is actually a wanted drug criminal who fled ...

SINGAPORE—The U.S. State Department has approved Singapore’s request to acquire four Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft and Mk. 54 Mod 0 lightweight torpedoes under a foreign military sales ...

Over 330 journalists were imprisoned globally in 2025, marking the fifth consecutive year of high incarceration rates.

After five years of brutal civil war Myanmar’s ruling military is holding an election backed by China that many say is a sham ...