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...
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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State-funded Russian broadcaster RT complained on Monday that NatWest had withdrawn its banking services in Britain without explanation, questioning how the move squared with the...
Cyprus ranks high in ‘social index’, but scores low in ‘shelter’ and environment
CYPRUS ranked 27th in the Social Progress Index, a twelve-pronged assessment of social progress per country globally, according to American non-profit Social Progress Imperative’s annual...
Journalists fire back at officials’ ‘intimidation’
STATE officials who feel offended or slandered by the media may resort to justice, instead of attempting pre-emptive censorship, Union of Cyprus Journalists Antonis Makridis...
Dutch far-right leader Wilders on trial for hate speech
By Toby Sterling and Anthony Deutsch Geert Wilders, the Dutch far-right politician who was acquitted five years ago of making anti-Islam remarks, went on trial...
Our View: Disgraceful decision to lock up Russian journalist
IT WAS very worrying to learn that a Russian journalist, who has been hounded by his country’s authorities for years because of his work activism,...
France, foreign leaders to march together in show of solidarity after attacks
By Geert De Clercq Hundreds of thousands of French citizens will be joined by dozens of foreign leaders, among them Arab and Muslim representatives, in...