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Belarus

Prominent Belarusian journalist Siarhei Satsuk arrested

Satsuk is the 30th journalist, who is currently in custody in Belarus, either awaiting trial or serving a sentence.

Euronews Witness

How will the return of the Taliban affect Afghan children?

Afghanistan is one of the most difficult places in the world to grow up and the crisis caused by the return of the Taliban is adding to the uncertainty. What will the Taliban rule mean for Afghan children? Euronews' international correspondent Anelise Borges gives her insight.

Netherlands

New tribunal to investigate journalists' deaths created in The Hague

A new report by UNESCO suggests a staggering six journalists have been killed worldwide every month in the past five years.

World News

Pegasus Project consortium wins first Caruana Galizia journalism prize

The consortium of journalists behind the Pegasus Project investigation into malware from Israel-based NSO Group has won the first top European Union journalism prize.

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Europe News

Report into the abuse of Rohingya women wins top EU media prize

This year's Lorenzo Natali Media Prize also recognised investigative reporting into the conditions of migrant workers in Spain and India's under-reported hunger crisis.

Russia

Russia adds protest monitoring group and 22 individuals to blacklist

OVD-Info joins the Mediazona website and the human-rights project Zona Prava on Russia's blacklist of critical media organisations.

Slovenia

Slovenian news agency director quits role over government pressure

The head of the Slovenian STA news agency has said that he "cannot accept the conditions imposed" by the country's government.

World News

News media across the world face dwindling public trust: report

Euronews spoke to report co-author Benjamin Toff, Senior Research Fellow at the Reuters Institute, to understand why public trust in news has declined and how it can be rebuilt.

Russia

BBC condemns expulsion of its Moscow correspondent

The Russian foreign ministry said the move came in retaliation to Britain's "persecution of Russian journalists".

Belarus

Jailed Belarus journalist needs urgent hospital care, says press union

Andrei Skurko was arrested earlier this month when authorities raided prominent Nasha Niva newspaper. He has reportedly been infected with COVID-19 while in detention.

Belarus

Euroviews. Europe should welcome in journalists forced to leave Belarus | View

"The people of Belarus deserve to know the doors of other European countries are open to them."

Tech News

Hungary used malware 'to spy on critical journalists and politicians'

The military-grade malware by the NSO Group infects phones, allowing the operator to access messages, photos, emails, and location data as well as surreptitiously control the device's microphones and cameras.

Myanmar

US journalist working for Myanmar magazine detained at airport

Frontier Myanmar says its managing editor Danny Fenster was detained at Yangon International Airport on Monday.

World News

Which countries are Europe's worst for journalistic freedom?

Monday marks World Press Freedom Day, so amid what RSF has called a ‘dramatic deterioration in access to information’, Euronews takes a look at the 10 worst countries in Europe for press freedom.

World News

Pandemic causes ‘dramatic deterioration’ to news access, watchdog says

Reporters without Borders warns governments are using the coronavirus pandemic as a means to crack down on freedom of the press.

Slovenia

EU condemns Slovenian PM Janez Jansa over 'insulting' journalist

The European Commission has condemned Slovenian prime minister Janez Jansa’s criticism of a reporter, who wrote a piece suggesting that media freedom was under pressure in the country.

World News

Belarus was Europe's most dangerous country for journalists in 2020

Reporters were caught up in the mass arrests that followed the disputed reelection of President Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus

China

China jails citizen journalist for reports on Wuhan COVID-19 lockdown

Zhang Zhan's broadcasts from inside the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak were widely shared on social media before she was arrested in May.

Turkey

Turkish court convicts exiled journalist Can Dundar

The court in Istanbul found the journalist guilty of “obtaining secret documents for espionage” and “aiding a terrorist organisation,” on Wednesday.

Iran

Iran executes journalist who encouraged 2017 protests

Iran executed a once-exiled journalist over his online work that helped inspire nationwide economic protests in 2017.