The Hannover state opera house apologized for the incident and said Monday that it was immediately suspending ballet director Marco Goecke.

At least 19 journalists, including Danylovych, were behind bars in Russia and Russian-occupied Crimea on December 1, 2022.

Two local journalists attempted to visit Ngongo in detention but ANR officers refused to admit them, they told CPJ.

CPJ’s calls and messages to Roy Niyati, a spokesperson for the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, did not receive any replies.

A journalist for Radio Free Asia is among three critics of China critics whose identities were used in an elaborate plot to make false bomb threats.

At least seven journalists from five news organizations were impersonated by someone with APT43, Mandiant Senior Analyst Gary Freas told VOA on Wednesday.

Among the newsrooms the company is producing TikTok videos for is The Associated Press.

Of the 550 journalists and media workers who are currently imprisoned worldwide, 73 – more than 13% – are women, according to RSF’s press freedom barometer, a proportion that has doubled in the past five years.

CPJ emailed the Ethiopian Ministry of Justice and federal police spokesperson Jeylan Abdi for comment, but did not receive any replies.

Tshibangu told CPJ that he was never presented with an arrest warrant and that police officers confiscated US$200 in cash from him before taking him to the prosecutor’s office.

Facebook said it took down a deepfake video of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urging citizens to lay down their weapons and surrender to Russia.

After his arrest, Shamsoddinnezhad was charged with “association and collusion with intent to commit a crime against the nation’s security.”

the authority suspended the license of the ARY News channel for airing clips of Khan’s speech in “willful defiance” of the prohibition order.