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On #WorldPressFreedomDay we want to commemorate the journalists who were killed while covering the war in Ukraine.
At least 7 journalists have been killed covering the war in Ukraine
These are their names...
Journalists are #NotATarget!
Journalism is not a crime!
#Anonymous
At least 7 journalists have been killed covering the war in Ukraine
These are their names...
Journalists are #NotATarget!
Journalism is not a crime!
#Anonymous
Yevhenii Sakun, a camera operator for Ukrainian TV station LIVE, was killed when Russian forces shelled a television tower in Kyiv on March 1.
Journalists are #NotATarget!
#WorldPressFreedomDay
Journalists are #NotATarget!
#WorldPressFreedomDay
U.S. documentary filmmaker Brent Renaud was shot and killed in Irpin, outside of #Kyiv, on March 13.
Journalists are #NotATarget!
#WorldPressFreedomDay #WPFD2022
Journalists are #NotATarget!
#WorldPressFreedomDay #WPFD2022
In 2022, press freedom is under siege around the world, threatened by the rising tide of authoritarianism & hatred: rsf.org/en/rsfs-2022-w⊠Journalists are the immune system of democracy, arming publics with the knowledge we need to be self-governing.
#HoldTheLine #WPFD2022
#HoldTheLine #WPFD2022
Journalism is not a crime.
Journalists bear witness to war, reveal fraud, waste, & abuse of power, & debunk the falsehoods of corrupt leaders, authoritarian regimes, & untrustworthy corporations.
At its best, a free press guards shared truths against rumors & lies.
#WPFD2022
Journalists bear witness to war, reveal fraud, waste, & abuse of power, & debunk the falsehoods of corrupt leaders, authoritarian regimes, & untrustworthy corporations.
At its best, a free press guards shared truths against rumors & lies.
#WPFD2022
On today's World Press Freedom Day, I would like to share my story of what can happen to a foreign journalist in #China while on holiday. A long thread with photos and spies. #WPFD2022 @RSF_inter @fccchina
I went on a cycling trip in Guizhou province in mid-April. It all started on day two, in Qianxi city. When I returned to my hotel after dinner around 11 p.m., four people were waiting for me in the lobby. Their leader said they were from...
... the local community administration. He asked me to come with them for a covid test at a hospital. I said I had a negative 24-hour test and green health and travel codes on my phone (mandatory in China). He said all travellers from Guiyang (where I had come from) were...
1/. Two hundred years ago, a slab of Purbeck stone was set deep into a hillside on Hampstead Heath
Called the Stone of Free Speech, itâs a place where people would come to hear âRadicalsâ like Hunt, Cobbett, Cartwright & Burdett give speeches about the struggle for basic rights
Called the Stone of Free Speech, itâs a place where people would come to hear âRadicalsâ like Hunt, Cobbett, Cartwright & Burdett give speeches about the struggle for basic rights
2/. The word radical is often associated with extremism but it derives from the Latin âradixâ meaning root
To effect real change, itâs essential to go to the root of a problem
So people would gather here to talk about suffrage, ending child labour & extreme inequality & slavery
To effect real change, itâs essential to go to the root of a problem
So people would gather here to talk about suffrage, ending child labour & extreme inequality & slavery
3/. In 1816 - amid growing fear among the ruling class - a riot at Spa Fields where people had gathered to hear Henry Hunt talk about electoral reform, gave a pretext for the passing of the âGagging Actsâ suppressing reformist activities & making gatherings of 50+ people illegal.
