JOURNALISTS AND MEDIA WORKERS UNITED
Défendons les journalistes et la liberté d'expression
Документалист Андрей Некрасов продолжают оставаться в тюрьме для иностранцев, несмотря на то, что ранее суд вынес решение о его высылке. Парадоксальным образом суд, ранее вынесший это решение, не позволил ему покинуть Россию. Это противоречие не может не вызывать тревогу. Гражданин...
Задержание журналиста «Нур Пресс» Жоодара Бузумова. Фото: Khamidullo Uzakov 15 января сотрудники Государственного комитета национальной безопасности (ГКНБ) провели обыск в редакции независимого онлайн-СМИ 24.kg и допросили его директора Асель Оторбаеву, а также двух главных редакторов по делу о “военной пропаганде”....
The Journalists and Media Workers Union (JMWU) associates itself with this declaration signed at the International Festival of Journalism (Perugia, Italy) and expresses its support for journalists working in Ukraine, as well as for their colleagues from Belarus and Russia....
On Monday night, intruders set fire to the car of Marina Malkova, a znak.com correspondent in Chelyabinsk. The editorial board described the situation diplomatically, saying that “the incident could be related to her professional activity.” But according to our information,...
The Journalists’ and Media Workers’ Union (JMWU) has addressed the Russian Investigative Committee, requesting to investigate the kidnapping of our colleague Sergei Plotnikov, a journalist and blogger from Khabarovsk. He was abducted by a group of unknown men in masks,...
On July 29, 2020 Vitaly Shkliarov, the columnist in Novaya gazeta (Russia) and many other outlets, political scientist, journalist, writer was arrested in Belarus. The charges against Shkliarov must be announced within 10 days starting from 1 August. Nevertheless it is already unofficially stated...
We demand a thorough investigation and punishment for those guilty On the 22nd of July the journalist Svetlana Anokhina received a phone call from a man who called himself Dalgat Umakhanov and said that he has “been charged with dealing...
Statement of Russian Journalists’ and Media Workers’ Union (JMWU) On July 8th, Lithuania’s official media commission (LRTK) banned the broadcasting of Russia’s state-controlled RT network. One of the primary reasons for Lithuania’s decision was the presumed control of the Russian...
On Sunday, Turkish police targeted journalists from Sputnik Türkiye, arresting at least three Turkish employees of the service and editor-in-chief Mahir Boztepe in raids in both Istanbul and Ankara. The reason? Publication of “The ‘Stolen Province’: Why Turkey Was Given A...
On March 25, 2017, 39 journalists were detained in the exercise of their duty by the officers of the state militia and other security services during the mass protest in Minsk. Three of those detained are Russian nationals who travelled...
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