Columbia Journalism Students organize a book drive for detained Reuters journalists in Myanmar
This past December, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, two Reuters journalists, were unjustly detained in Myanmar following their coverage of the humanitarian crisis caused by ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in… Read more »
Will Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven bring Gui Minhai home?
For nearly two years now, we’ve been following the case of Gui Minhai, a Swedish publisher and bookseller who disappeared in Thailand in October 2015, only to resurface in state custody… Read more »
Take me to your readers
Folks, we had a good run. But recent events have clearly demonstrated that humans simply can’t hack it as the dominant species on the planet. We need help. Luckily, robot… Read more »
Sole Ukrainian newspaper in Crimea quietly shutters its office
It hardly seems a coincidence that the closing of the only remaining Ukrainian-language newspaper in Crimea last week coincides almost exactly with the second anniversary of the Russian annexation of the… Read more »
Poet sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia
Last week, a Saudi Arabian court ordered the execution of Ashraf Fayadh, a poet and artist born in Palestine who is now officially stateless, and who is also a member of… Read more »