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Indeks Kebebasan Pers Dunia, yang menilai 180 negara, menemukan bahwa jurnalisme yang mapan ‘sedang tercekik’Kebebasan pers di seluruh dunia berada di titik terendah dalam satu generasi, menurut sebuah indeks tahunan berpengaruh yang menyoroti meningkatnya tekanan otoriter terhadap media.Skor rata-rata untuk 180 negara yang dinilai oleh Indeks Kebebasan Pers Dunia, yang disusun oleh Reporters Without Borders (RSF), adalah yang terendah dalam 25 tahun sejarah indeks tersebut. Lanjutkan membaca...

Taipan media dianugerahi penghargaan secara in absentia di saat para kritikus mengecam hukuman 20 tahun penjaranya di bawah undang-undang keamanan nasional. Pengusaha media yang dipenjara, Jimmy Lai, telah dianugerahi penghargaan kebebasan berbicara dari Deutsche Welle atas kontribusinya pada gerakan pro-demokrasi Hong Kong. Lembaga penyiaran publik Jerman tersebut menyatakan pada hari Kamis bahwa Lai akan dianugerahi penghargaan edisi ke-12 tersebut secara in absentia pada 23 Juni di DW Global Media Forum di Bonn. Lanjutkan membaca...

Sekretaris perumahan dan menteri perumahan menjadi pihak terbaru yang mengkritik ide tersebut, yang juga telah dikesampingkan oleh No 10

Ruling is blow to Office for Students after it issued fine for handling of protests over professor’s trans rights viewsSussex University has overturned a £585,000 fine by England’s higher education watchdog after the high court rejected claims the university had breached free speech regulations involving its former professor Kathleen Stock.The ruling is a damaging blow to the credibility and management of the Office for Students, after the court rejected the regulator’s lengthy investigation into Sussex’s handling of the protests aimed at Stock over her views on transgender rights and her subsequent resignation in 2021. Continue reading...

Labor under pressure to scrap group voting tickets as Avi Yemini details plan to funnel votes to conservative parties at state election A rightwing provocateur’s plan to register the “Free Palestine party” and use it to funnel votes to conservative parties in Victoria’s state election has renewed concern over the state’s voting system.Avi Yemini, a former Israeli solider and self-styled investigative journalist who creates content for his YouTube channel Rebel News Australia, on Tuesday announced plans to register the party, which he said would “flow our preferences on to parties that want to free Palestine from Hamas” in the November poll. Continue reading...

Downing Street says focus to remains on cutting bills, backing renters and lowering energy pricesDowning Street has dismissed a freeze on private sector rents even as Rachel Reeves left the door open to the idea, after the Guardian revealed the chancellor has been considering it as an option to cut the cost of living.A No 10 spokesperson said on Tuesday freezing private sector rents was “not the approach we will be taking” after sources told the Guardian it was Reeves’s preferred solution for dealing with a spike in housing costs in the wake of the Iran war. Continue reading...

One by one, the pins have been knocked out from under B.C. businessman Fred Sharp: He's been fined tens of millions of dollars for his role in stock-market schemes, he's banned from equity markets in Canada, his bank accounts were frozen. But he still has his freedom, and it's not clear why.