PRESS FREEDOM
Press freedom has deteriorated in the face of a global pandemic, journalists share on World Press Freedom Day
ICIJ members in every region told of rising attacks, intimidation, government pressure, restrictions, lawsuits and penalties in the past year, as well as concerns arising from changes in media ownership. May 3, 2021 A journalist wears a T-shirt with an image of Malaysian news site Malaysiakini’s editor-in-chief Steven Gan at the Federal Court in Putrajaya on July 13, 2020, as the site faces contempt of court proceedings.
Journalism has not been spared in the global turmoil of the past 12 months, according to the latest press freedom index from Reporters Without Borders.
Russian reporter Roman Anin calls for global pressure on Kremlin over media attacks
Following a raid on his apartment by Russian authorities in April, Anin discovered he had been under surveillance for years. Roman Anin
More than 200 reporters and news outlets from around the world have signed a statement calling on the Russian government to restore freedom of the press in the country, less than a month after reporter Roman Anin’s apartment was raided and his equipment seized by authorities.
Anin, who is an ICIJ member and editor-in-chief of independent investigative outlet IStories, was taken in for questioning on April 9, after a seven-hour search of his apartment by the Federal Security Service (FSB).
For Russia s Last Remaining Independent Media, April Was the Cruelest Month
April was a terrible month for freedom of expression in Russia.
In early April, the authorities struck at Roman Anin, editor-in-chief of
iStories (Important Stories), a new outlet specializing in investigative journalism.
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) raided Anin’s home and
iStories’ office in connection with a 2016 criminal invasion of privacy case that had been dormant for more than four years concerning his reporting on a luxury yacht, owned by an off-shore company, on which the then-wife of Igor Sechin, head of the state oil corporation, Rosneft, took extended Mediterranean vacations. iStories did not even exist at the time. Following Sechin’s successful defamation lawsuit, Novaya Gazeta, the newspaper that published the article had to publish a retraction.
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Prominent Academics, Media Figures Show Support for Raided Russian Journalists April 16, 2021 DOXA editor Vladimir Metelkin outside of a court hearing Wednesday. Vladimir Gerdo / TASS
Nearly 300 international academics and a popular Russian YouTuber have expressed solidarity with Russian journalists recently subjected to police raids amid widening pressure on independent media.
The letters of support and calls for donations came after four editors of independent student news site DOXA were charged with criminal incitement of youth and investigative journalist Roman Anin was questioned as a witness in an invasion of privacy investigation. news
Some 271 academics signed an open letter calling the charges against DOXA editors Armen Aramyan, Vladimir Metelkin, Alla Gutnikova and Natasha Tyshekvich “preposterous.” The journalists face up to three years in prison for a video saying students had the legal righ