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June 18, 2021
Hundreds of police officers search the Apple Daily group’s headquarters after five senior staff were arrested under the National Security Law, accused of “collusion with foreign forces”. Video: Al Jazeera Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned yesterday’s police raid on Hong Kong media outlet Apple Daily’s headquarters — the second time ... <a title="RSF condemns Hong Kong police storming of Apple Daily – 5 arrested" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/18/rsf-condemns-hong-kong-police-storming-of-apple-daily-5-arrested/" aria-label="Read more about RSF condemns Hong Kong police storming of Apple Daily – 5 arrested">Read more</a>
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June 15, 2021
Human rights lawyers Amal Clooney and Caoilfhionn Gallagher, who lead the international defence legal team, have call on the international community to ensure that all charges against Philippines journalist and editor Maria Ressa are dropped. The legal team of Rappler CEO Ressa welcomed the recent dismissal of the second cyber libel charge filed against her. ... <a title="Lawyer Clooney welcomes dismissal of second libel suit against Maria Ressa" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/15/lawyer-clooney-welcomes-dismissal-of-second-libel-suit-against-maria-ressa/" aria-label="Read more about Lawyer Clooney welcomes dismissal of second libel suit against Maria Ressa">Read more</a>
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June 9, 2021
By Charlie Dumavi in Port Moresby Women students at the University of Papua New Guinea silently suffering from persistent sexual harassment and abuse in the vicinity of the Waigani campus have become as national issue with a protest leading to a clash with media. The issue was brought to public attention when a woman student ... <a title="Angry male student mob targets media over UPNG sexual abuse protest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/09/angry-male-student-mob-targets-media-over-upng-sexual-abuse-protest/" aria-label="Read more about Angry male student mob targets media over UPNG sexual abuse protest">Read more</a>
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June 9, 2021
By Jemimah Sukbat in Port Moresby A group of male students attacked the media covering a harassment protest by female students at the University of Papua New Guinea today. The rowdy group said they did not want the media to report on an issue of sexual and physical harassment by males, claiming it was an ... <a title="Male students at UPNG attack media for reporting on sexual harassment" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/09/male-students-at-upng-attack-media-for-reporting-on-sexual-harassment/" aria-label="Read more about Male students at UPNG attack media for reporting on sexual harassment">Read more</a>
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June 6, 2021
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – Indonesian police carry a body in the current crackdown against pro-independence Papuans near Timika, Papua. IMAGE: seputarpapua.com By DAVID ROBIE International reporting has hardly been a strong feature of New Zealand journalism. No New Zealand print news organisation has serious international news departments or foreign ... <a title="West Papua, Palestine and other critical issues – why is NZ media glossing over them?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/06/west-papua-palestine-and-other-critical-issues-why-is-nz-media-glossing-over-them/" aria-label="Read more about West Papua, Palestine and other critical issues – why is NZ media glossing over them?">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Indonesia has cut off the internet in West Papua to conceal its crackdown on the peaceful liberation movement, says a leading Papuan campaigner. Benny Wenda, interim president of the United Liberation Movement of West Papua (ULMWP), has condemned the internet gag while Indonesia’s leading English-language daily newspaper, The Jakarta Post, has ... <a title="Papuan resistance slams Indonesian internet gag amid leader crackdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/04/papuan-resistance-slams-indonesian-internet-gag-amid-leader-crackdown/" aria-label="Read more about Papuan resistance slams Indonesian internet gag amid leader crackdown">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2021
RNZ Saturday Morning Samoa found itself in a constitutional crisis this week when the caretaker Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP) government locked the doors to Parliament in an attempt to stop prime minister-elect Fiame Naomi Mata’afa being sworn in to office following her FAST party’s one-seat election win. Samoa now finds itself in the position ... <a title="RNZ Saturday Morning: How will the Samoan constitutional crisis end?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/29/rnz-saturday-morning-how-will-the-samoan-constitutional-crisis-end/" aria-label="Read more about RNZ Saturday Morning: How will the Samoan constitutional crisis end?">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2021
COMMENT: By Rukuwai Tīpene-Allan “Welfare dependent”, “inferior”, “savages”, “natives”… Walking through Parliament, I head to my office in the press gallery, passing gilded portraits of reporters who came before, and I recall that the people who adorn these walls were the same people who published some of the most racist rhetoric that has ever been ... <a title="Māori in the gallery: Coping with daily racism in the Beehive as a Māori journalist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/24/maori-in-the-gallery-coping-with-daily-racism-in-the-beehive-as-a-maori-journalist/" aria-label="Read more about Māori in the gallery: Coping with daily racism in the Beehive as a Māori journalist">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Gavin Ellis, Knightly Views columnist Sometime this week Newsroom co-editor Mark Jennings is due to be interviewed under caution by the New Zealand police because he kicked the hornet’s nest. The particular hornet’s nest he disturbed was Oranga Tamariki, a state agency, and the reason it was given a boot was a now-discredited ... <a title="The man who kicked the hornet’s nest – focus on the Newsroom police probe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/19/the-man-who-kicked-the-hornets-nest-focus-on-the-newsroom-police-probe/" aria-label="Read more about The man who kicked the hornet’s nest – focus on the Newsroom police probe">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2021
By Justin Wong in Auckland Auckland University of Technology has denied it is sidelining the Pacific Media Centre in the School of Communication Studies, but it is yet to announce the new leadership following disputes over office space and a succession plan. The multi-disciplinary research and professional development unit was founded in 2007 by Professor ... <a title="Future of AUT’s Pacific Media Centre still up in the air" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/19/future-of-auts-pacific-media-centre-still-up-in-the-air/" aria-label="Read more about Future of AUT’s Pacific Media Centre still up in the air">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2021
Media offices have been bombed and Palestinian and international journalists arrested, beaten and threatened by Israeli forces amid escalating violence in Gaza, reports the International Federation of Journalists. The IFJ has declared in a statement that it stands in solidarity with the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) and all Palestinian and foreign media workers that have ... <a title="Palestine: Hold Israel accountable for crimes against journalists, says IFJ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/16/palestine-hold-israel-accountable-for-crimes-against-journalists-says-ifj/" aria-label="Read more about Palestine: Hold Israel accountable for crimes against journalists, says IFJ">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2021
EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer editorial board The caretaker Prime Minister, Tuilaepa Dr Sa’ilele Malielegaoi, thinks the newspaper you hold in your hands is dedicated to trying to “tear down” the Samoan government but the broader economic progress of Samoa. So, reader, are you subsidising borderline treachery by having paid for the edition you hold ... <a title="Samoa Observer: Silence tears down a nation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/10/samoa-observer-silence-tears-down-a-nation/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa Observer: Silence tears down a nation">Read more</a>