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July 24, 2022
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Anything concerning the Catholic Church is extremely sensitive in Timor-Leste, as Raimundos Oki, the editor of The Oekusi Post website can confirm, reports the Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders. Oki is facing a possible six-year jail sentence under article 291 of the penal code after being questioned about ... <a title="RSF criticises charges against Timor-Leste reporter over revealing minors given virginity tests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/24/rsf-criticises-charges-against-timor-leste-reporter-over-revealing-minors-given-virginity-tests/" aria-label="Read more about RSF criticises charges against Timor-Leste reporter over revealing minors given virginity tests">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2022
ANALYSIS: By Biman Chand Prasad in Suva The Pacific Islands Forum leaders’ meeting has ended and what is intriguing is the deafening silence on declining standards of democracy, governance, human rights, media freedom and freedom of speech issues, despite the serious and arguably worsening situation in some regional countries. The emphasis on climate change is ... <a title="Australia and New Zealand’s ‘deafening silence’ on Pacific democracy and human rights" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/21/australia-and-new-zealands-deafening-silence-on-pacific-democracy-and-human-rights/" aria-label="Read more about Australia and New Zealand’s ‘deafening silence’ on Pacific democracy and human rights">Read more</a>
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July 14, 2022
ANALYSIS: The restrictions on Pacific news media during Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s recent Pacific trip are only the most recent example of a media sector under siege, writes Shailendra Singh. For the Pacific news media sector, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s recent eight-nation South Pacific tour may be over, but it should not be ... <a title="How China’s creeping influence undermines Pacific media freedom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/14/how-chinas-creeping-influence-undermines-pacific-media-freedom/" aria-label="Read more about How China’s creeping influence undermines Pacific media freedom">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2022
EDITORIAL: By the Rappler team We will continue bringing you the news, holding the powerful to account for their actions and decisions, calling attention to government lapses that further disempower the disadvantaged. We will hold the line. Dear readers and viewers, We thought this day would never come, even as we were warned in the ... <a title="Stand with Rappler, defend press freedom in Philippines" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/30/stand-with-rappler-defend-press-freedom-in-philippines/" aria-label="Read more about Stand with Rappler, defend press freedom in Philippines">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2022
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Following the United Kingdom’s decision to extradite Julian Assange to face trial in the United States, the International Federation of Journalists’ (IFJ) Australian affiliate, the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) has called on the Australian government to take swift steps to lobby for the dismissal of all charges against Assange. ... <a title="IFJ calls on Canberra to act against Assange extradition order to US" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/22/ifj-calls-on-canberra-to-act-against-assange-extradition-order-to-us/" aria-label="Read more about IFJ calls on Canberra to act against Assange extradition order to US">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2022
ANALYSIS: By Holly Cullen, The University of Western Australia and Amy Maguire, University of Newcastle Last week on June 17 2022, UK Home Secretary Priti Patel issued a statement confirming she had approved the US government’s request to extradite Julian Assange. The Australian founder of WikiLeaks faces 18 criminal charges of computer misuse and espionage. ... <a title="UK government orders extradition of Julian Assange to US, but that isn’t end of the matter" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/22/uk-government-orders-extradition-of-julian-assange-to-us-but-that-isnt-end-of-the-matter/" aria-label="Read more about UK government orders extradition of Julian Assange to US, but that isn’t end of the matter">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2022
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk The UK government’s decision to uphold the application by the US Department of Justice to extradite Australian publisher Julian Assange imperils journalists everywhere, says the union for Australia’s journalists. The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance calls on the Australian government to take urgent steps to lobby the US and UK governments ... <a title="Assange extradition order a ‘dangerous assault on international journalism’, says MEAA" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/18/assange-extradition-order-a-dangerous-assault-on-international-journalism-says-meaa/" aria-label="Read more about Assange extradition order a ‘dangerous assault on international journalism’, says MEAA">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2022
COMMENTARY: By David Robie Timor-Leste, the youngest independent nation and the most fledgling press in the Asia-Pacific, has finally shown how it’s done — with a big lesson for Pacific island neighbours. Tackle the Chinese media gatekeepers and creeping authoritarianism threatening journalism in the region at the top. In Dili on the final day of ... <a title="Ramos-Horta challenges Pacific’s biggest threat to media freedom – China’s gatekeepers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/05/ramos-horta-challenges-pacifics-biggest-threat-to-media-freedom-chinas-gatekeepers/" aria-label="Read more about Ramos-Horta challenges Pacific’s biggest threat to media freedom – China’s gatekeepers">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2022
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned a media blackout imposed on events during Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s 10-day tour of Pacific island countries. Wang is today in Papua New Guinea at the end of an eight-country tour that began on May 26, but a “Chinese state media reporter is so ... <a title="RSF condemns Chinese curb on reporters during Pacific island tour" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/03/rsf-condemns-chinese-curb-on-reporters-during-pacific-island-tour/" aria-label="Read more about RSF condemns Chinese curb on reporters during Pacific island tour">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2022
RNZ Pacific The Media Association of Solomon Islands (MASI) has urged its members to boycott a media conference for a visiting Chinese delegation in protest over “ridiculous” restrictions. China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi leads the high-level delegation which arrives in Solomon Islands today. Wang is expected to sign a host of new agreements, including the ... <a title="Solomons media condemns ‘secrecy’ controls over China delegation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/27/solomons-media-condemns-secrecy-controls-over-china-delegation/" aria-label="Read more about Solomons media condemns ‘secrecy’ controls over China delegation">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2022
The global response to the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Video: Al Jazeera COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis of Knightly Views Nothing justifies the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and the wounding of her colleague Ali al-Samoudi during an Israeli raid on Jenin in the Occupied West Bank. Nothing. I ... <a title="Gavin Ellis: As if the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh wasn’t enough…" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/17/gavin-ellis-as-if-the-killing-of-shireen-abu-akleh-wasnt-enough/" aria-label="Read more about Gavin Ellis: As if the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh wasn’t enough…">Read more</a>
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May 14, 2022
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Israel’s fatal shooting of leading Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh as she covered clashes in the West Bank city of Jenin is a serious violation of the Geneva Conventions and UN Security Council Resolution 2222 on the protection of journalists, says the Paris-based media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF). ... <a title="RSF calls for independent probe into Al Jazeera reporter’s West Bank killing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/14/rsf-calls-for-independent-probe-into-al-jazeera-reporters-west-bank-killing/" aria-label="Read more about RSF calls for independent probe into Al Jazeera reporter’s West Bank killing">Read more</a>
