Scroll Top

– Omani Supreme Court shuts down independent "Azamn" newspaper indefinitely (Demo)

0
By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News October 11, 2017

The Supreme Court of Oman issued a final ruling on the closure of Azamn, ending the paper's fight to reopen and shuttering it permanently. Azamn is regarded as an independent newspaper characterised by its anti-corruption reporting since its establishment in 2007.
Source: MEDIA FEED

HRNJ-Uganda / About Author
More posts by HRNJ-Uganda

Related Posts

ECtHR finds arrests of opposition leader Alexei Navalny to be politically-motivated (Demo)

Navalny is one of thousands of people arrested in recent years for taking part in, or organising, peaceful public protests….

0
17 Nov 2018
– As the 37th Session of UN Human Rights Council takes place, governments in the MENA region step up repression (Demo)

Concerns about abuses and Bahrain's Grand Prix; the risks of protesting and covering protests in Iraq; Egypt's media attacks extend…

0
04 Apr 2018
– Sufi website journalists sentenced to long jail terms, flogging in Iran (Demo)

RSF condemns the extremely harsh sentences that a Tehran revolutionary court passed last week on six more people who edited…

0
23 Aug 2018
– Access to Information: Equipping women and men to transform their communities (Demo)

With an eye on the upcoming International Day for the Universal Access to Information, José Peralta shares how an ARTICLE…

0
20 Sep 2017
– Greece: Three "Fileleftheros" journalists arrested for defaming minister (Demo)

Three journalists were arrested and held overnight in an Athens police cell after the defence minister, Panos Kammenos, filed a…

0
26 Sep 2018
– Stand with Shawkan (Demo)

Stand with imprisoned Egyptian photojournalist Shawkan by posting a picture with the hashtag #MyPicForShawkan on social media Source: MEDIA FEED

0
24 Apr 2018
– Women as drivers of change (Demo)

MFWA's Felicia Anthonio discusses the fight by Ghanaian women to conquer jobs traditionally reserved for men. Source: MEDIA FEED

0
08 Mar 2017
– Is compromise compromising news? (Demo)

"News is something which somebody wants suppressed: all the rest is advertising." Variations on this quote, originally attributed to William…

0
08 Jan 2018
– Zambia moves forward with Access to Information bill (Demo)

MISA Zambia welcomes the pronouncement by Justice Minister Given Lubinda at the 2017 Universal Periodic Review that the Access to…

0
15 Feb 2017
The women political prisoners exposing systemic abuse in Bahrain (Demo)

This statement was originally published on adhrb.org on 11 September 2019. Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB)…

0
11 Sep 2019
– Nigerian media lobby groups call for immediate release of journalist Samuel Ogundipe (Demo)

MRA calls for the immediate and unconditional release of journalist Samuel Ogundipe who is being detained for refusing to disclose…

0
15 Aug 2018
Bangladesh regulator blocks university webpage containing reports of student abuse (Demo)

This statement was originally published on globalvoices.org on 10 October 2019. It is republished here under Creative Commons license CC-BY…

0
11 Oct 2019
– On the heels of the presidential election, what hope for media freedom in Honduras? (Demo)

Eight years after a coup d'état in June 2009, the level of press freedom is still sinking in Honduras. Journalists…

0
28 Nov 2017
– Liberian President George Weah set to decriminalize free speech (Demo)

President George Weah of Liberia has resubmitted a Bill to the Legislature to decriminalize free speech and create a less…

0
23 Jun 2018
– Save Encryption from the Five Eyes (Demo)

Citizens of the Five Eyes – Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the US can join OpenMedia in telling…

0
20 Sep 2017