Just read @zackwhittaker's experience over a longer time span with how the government in #USA, through #FBI are attacking press freedom deliberately. It makes me angry how #Trump reverted protections the Biden administration put in place after the the first Trump administration.

The press freedom must be fought for by all means everywhere. There are no chance to have an honest government without a free and independent press. And what happens in the #US now is just terrifying.

#press #pressfreedom #politics #uspol

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/fbi-agents-visited-my-home-about-an-article-i-wrote-and-now-i-cannot-go-to-mexico/

Just read @zackwhittaker's experience over a longer time span with how the government in #USA, through #FBI are attacking press freedom deliberately. It makes me angry how #Trump reverted protections the Biden administration put in place after the the first Trump administration.

The press freedom must be fought for by all means everywhere. There are no chance to have an honest government without a free and independent press. And what happens in the #US now is just terrifying.

#press #pressfreedom #politics #uspol

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/fbi-agents-visited-my-home-about-an-article-i-wrote-and-now-i-cannot-go-to-mexico/

#whatsapp blocked in #russia !
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clygd10pg5lo

How many days left for #russian #wikipedia in Russia?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Wikipedia?wprov=sfti1#2024._State_pressure_on_Wikimedia_RU_and_its_members

At least our #ZIM archives for #offline usage are up-to-date and free to use for everybody
https://library.kiwix.org/#lang=rus&category=wikipedia

#foss #edtec #pressfreedom

#whatsapp blocked in #russia !
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clygd10pg5lo

How many days left for #russian #wikipedia in Russia?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Wikipedia?wprov=sfti1#2024._State_pressure_on_Wikimedia_RU_and_its_members

At least our #ZIM archives for #offline usage are up-to-date and free to use for everybody
https://library.kiwix.org/#lang=rus&category=wikipedia

#foss #edtec #pressfreedom

@randahl tagging #pressFreedom #journalism #WashingtonPost #WaPo ⬆️

"Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 20 years in jail following his conviction on foreign collusion and sedition charges."

Human Rights Watch called the 20-year jail term "effectively a death sentence"

https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/09/breaking-jimmy-lai-jailed-for-20-years-in-hong-kong-after-nat-security-conviction/

#HongKong #China #FreeJimmyLai #HumanRights #PressFreedom #HRW

"Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 20 years in jail following his conviction on foreign collusion and sedition charges."

Human Rights Watch called the 20-year jail term "effectively a death sentence"

https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/09/breaking-jimmy-lai-jailed-for-20-years-in-hong-kong-after-nat-security-conviction/

#HongKong #China #FreeJimmyLai #HumanRights #PressFreedom #HRW

#GeorgiaFort speaks at CNN Anderson Cooper

Why journalist says her arrest over church protest is a 'chilling message'
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/30/us/video/georgia-fort-interview-anderson-cooper-digvid

#PressFreedom #USPOL #Fascism
#DonLemon #JamaelLundy #TrahernCrews

The arrests of reporters Georgia Fort and Don Lemon for engaging in journalism are outrageous.

The Media and Democracy Project, and many other press freedom groups, joined this statement by the National Association of Black Journalists #NABJ

https://nabjonline.org/blog/nabjoutrageddonlemonarrest/

@BlackNAndV

#PressFreedom #DataJournalism
#GeorgiaFort #DonLemon

The arrests of reporters Georgia Fort and Don Lemon for engaging in journalism are outrageous.

The Media and Democracy Project, and many other press freedom groups, joined this statement by the National Association of Black Journalists #NABJ

https://nabjonline.org/blog/nabjoutrageddonlemonarrest/

@BlackNAndV

#PressFreedom #DataJournalism
#GeorgiaFort #DonLemon

Don Lemon was hindered filming and captured

https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/usa-ex-cnn-journalist-don-lemon-festgenommen-a-4b1ea0db-e97a-444b-b614-5f3b33dd8e6e
#pressfreedom #us #fascism

Eugene Daniels points out that both of these journalists - Don Lemon and Georgia Fort - are Black and just as importantly independent journalists. Independent journalists don't have the resources that journalists employed by major media do.

The point is not conviction, it's to embarrass these ppl & force them to spend time & money on their legal representation defending themselves in court.

Charles Coleman is in agreement.
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#PressFreedom #USpol

#LosAngeles
I am a journalist. I was covering the Afghanistan conflict.
I am from Europe, the nation always in the second row there – „a little off the front lines“.
We visited the gun factories in Darra and had Kalashnikows in our eyes- I did not see US soldiers there but:

I ASK YOU TO DEFEND PRESS FREEDOM TODAY AND TOMORROW !
And your democracy :_(

SAT Los Angeles City Hall at 2 p.m.

„Here are the planned actions across L.A.:“ https://laist.com/news/politics/la-nationwide-ice-out-protests-what-to-know-about-call-to-action

#LA #USPOL #PressFreedom #ICE
#LA0201 #FirstAmendment #GeorgiaFort #DonLemon, #JamaelLundy #TrahernCrews

BREAKING

David Noriega/CNN:

Don Lemon is charged under a statute from the Reconstruction Era & another meant to prevent people from depriving women of accessing abortion clinics.

This is information from DHS, but DOJ is the prosecuting agency and hasn't confirmed.

#PressFreedom
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Lisa Gilbert, Public Citizen:

“Reporters in America are free to view, document, and share information with the public,” Gilbert said. “This arrest is a constitutional violation, an outrage, an authoritarian breach, and utterly appalling.”

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/30/politics/don-lemon-custody
also Special Reports at the CPJ https://cpj.org/issue/press-freedom-in-the-us/

#GeorgiaFort #DonLemon, #JamaelLundy #TrahernCrews
#PressFreedom #USPOL #Fascism

2/2 🧵

#FirstAmendment

RCFP statement on arrests of journalists Don Lemon, Georgia Fort

https://www.rcfp.org/lemon-fort-arrest-statement/

#GeorgiaFort #DonLemon, #JamaelLundy #TrahernCrews
#PressFreedom

#FirstAmendment

RCFP statement on arrests of journalists Don Lemon, Georgia Fort

https://www.rcfp.org/lemon-fort-arrest-statement/

#GeorgiaFort #DonLemon, #JamaelLundy #TrahernCrews
#PressFreedom

IPI North American Committee raises alarm over threats to press freedom in the U.S.
https://ipi.media/ipi-north-american-committee-raises-alarm-over-threats-to-press-freedom-in-the-u-s/

[video]
Georgia Fort livestreamed
her arrest
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/georgia-fort-arrest-journalist-minnesota-church-b2911041.html

#GeorgiaFort #DonLemon, #JamaelLundy #TrahernCrews
#PressFreedom

10 days ago
Trump Says He Wants Don Lemon Sent to Prison
https://www.journal-isms.com/trump-says-he-wants-don-lemon-sent-to-prison/

#DonLemon #PressFreedom