House seeks to broaden scope of illegal online harassment
Memes which deliberately cause offence or insult a person may become illegal under a House legal affairs committee proposal, which seeks to change the law...
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Turks, Greek Cypriots protest trial of Turkish Cypriot journalist
More support for Turkish Cypriot journalist Ali Kismir poured in on Monday from Cyprus and from Turkey, as the presidents of the journalists’ associations of...
Journalism must regain its proper place, says government spokesman
Any attack aimed at silencing a journalist not only violates that person’s human rights, but is also an affront to the collective deeply held beliefs...
President highlights freedom of speech challenge in AI era
President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday stressed the need to ensure freedom of speech but also to present correct, factual information in the ever-changing environment of...
Justice Abroad seeks apology for woman arrested for critcising community leader
The British-based Justice Abroad team is now representing a British mother, Kaela Charalampous, who was arrested in front of her young child after describing the...
Police chief: we may have gone too far over fake Yiolitis Twitter account
Opposition MPs on Monday piled on Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis for having reported to authorities a Twitter parody account – leading to police raiding the...
Trump’s attack on free press isolates him further
MORE than 350 news organisations in the US agreed to publish editorials hitting back at President Trump’s attacks on the media, which does not look...
Attempt at Cyprob-neutral glossary incenses media
A bicommunal initiative to create a glossary of mutually acceptable terms for journalists to use when reporting on the Cyprus problem is causing uproar within...
Journalists’ union stands by beleaguered Afrika newspaper
The union of Cyprus journalists (ESK) pledged on Wednesday to support the Turkish Cypriot daily Afrika, under fire since last week when it published a...
Kremlin-backed broadcaster RT says loses UK banking services
State-funded Russian broadcaster RT complained on Monday that NatWest had withdrawn its banking services in Britain without explanation, questioning how the move squared with the...
