Tuesday, 27 Apr 2021 05:53 PM MYT
BY SHAHRIN AIZAT NOORSHAHRIZAM
File picture shows commuters walking past an advertisement discouraging the dissemination of fake news at a train station in Kuala Lumpur, March 28, 2018. Reuters pic
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KUALA LUMPUR, April 27 The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has demanded the Perikatan Nasional government to improve the environment of local journalism in response to the recent drop in Reporters Without Borders’ (RSF) 2021 Press Freedom Index.
In a statement today, NUJ secretary-general Chin Sung Chew said that draconian laws that have suppressed freedom of expression in the local media industry need to be repealed.
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Press Freedom under Lockdown Across Two-Thirds of the Globe Reporters Without Borders said press freedom was restricted either partly or completely in two thirds of the globe. It warned that authoritarian regimes had used the pandemic to “perfect their methods of totalitarian control of information”, and as a pretext for imposing “especially repressive legislation with provisions combining propaganda with suppression of dissent”. (Image by Miriam Gathigah/IPS)
May 3 is World Press Freedom Day. This feature is part of a series highlighting the current state of media freedom globally
Independent journalism is facing a growing crackdown one year into the COVID-19 pandemic as governments around the world restrict access to information and muzzle critical reporting, media and rights watchdogs have warned.
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An investigative journalist arrested and tried after she made a documentary exposing the Hong Kong police force s handling of the July 21, 2019 mob attacks on train passengers in Yuen Long was found guilty of improper searches of an online car license database on Thursday.
Journalist Bao Choy, whose documentary 7/21: Who Owns The Truth? tracked the movements of suspected attackers on the night of the attacks, had pleaded not guilty to two counts of knowingly making a false statement to access number plate ownership records.
Choy, 37, was fined H.K.$6,000 by the judge at West Kowloon Magistrates Court, who said the public interest aspect of her work on the film had been taken into account. The charges carry a maximum sentence of six months imprisonment.