May 22, 2024 Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, who had been serving a four-year sentence for reporting on the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in locked-down Wuhan, has been released from prison. This is according to the supporters. The former lawyer had been sentenced to four years in prisonContinue Reading
By Aluta News March 4, 2024 The ECOWAS Court of Justice on Monday in Abuja dismissed a petition filed by Media Rights Agenda (MRA), an NGO, seeking to compel the Nigerian government to pay N10 million reparation each to the families of 11 deceased journalists. MRA had in the suitContinue Reading
By Aluta News Jan. 7, 2022 UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) says 55 journalists and media professionals were killed in 2021, noting that impunity against journalists is alarmingly widespread. Fifty-five journalists and media professionals were killed in 2021, according to latest UN data released on Thursday, with nearlyContinue Reading
By Aluta News Nov. 01, 2021 Femi Gbajabiamila, the Speaker of the House of Representatives has promised to ensure the safe return of missing journalist with Vanguard Newspaper. Gbajabiamila made the promise at a capacity building workshop for the House of Reps Committee on Media and Public Affairs on MondayContinue Reading
