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TAIPEI, Taiwan, Apr 30 (IPS) - This is the first in a series of articles on World Press Freedom Day, which the UN will commemorate on May 3.The last time Bahram Sintash saw his journalist father was in 2017. Qurban Mamut, an influential Uyghur editor had come to the United States for a visit but upon his return to Xinjiang in northwest China, he disappeared.

The documentary "Not the Foreign Force" was posted on the first anniversary of the White Paper Movement on YouTube and X (Twitter) in late November 2023.

Minnie Chan second reporter at Hong Kong newspaper to be subject of safety concerns, people familiar with matter say.

A Hong Kong court has sentenced Ronson Chan, the head of a journalists' association, to five days in prison for obstructing police. The ruling Monday on Chan, who chairs the Hong Kong Journalists Association, was condemned by media analysts as showing a further decline in press freedom in the region. It came as media organizations…

The two journalists had previously been accredited to cover the event and were told that the decision was based on a demand by Chinese authorities.

Taipei, May 24 (CNA) International media organizations are continuing to urge the United Nations to grant all journalists access to its events, after two Taiwanese reporters were turned away from this week's World Health Assembly (WHA).

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After days of speculation about the whereabouts of a Taiwan-based book publisher, Beijing revealed that authorities arrested the China critic for allegedly "endangering national security." Shanghai security officers arrested Li Yanhe, a book publisher and radio host for the Taiwanese public broadcaster Radio Taiwan International, while he was visiting relatives in the city. Li traveled…

Li Yanhe, also known as Fucha, published books critical of Beijing