Monitoring press freedom and international affairs from Mid-Missouri Public Radio and the Missouri School of Journalism
Syrian survivor aids case against Assad
By  • 9 November 2017
Assad's government seeks to 'wipe memories' of those who survive Syria's secret prisons Since the start of protests against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during the 2011 Arab Spring, Assad's regime has detained thousands of protesters, opposition…
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Project Exile: Bangladeshi reporter makes new life in Sweden
By  • 11 January 2017
"I’m not the first or the last [Bangladeshi] journalist to be detained and tortured but I’m sort of the only one who spoke up." It was just after midnight on May 11, 2007 when a…
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Verdict of Syrian journalist jailed since 2012 postponed
By  • 12 November 2014
A court in the Syrian capital Damascus has postponed the verdict in the trial of a Syrian journalist arrested in 2012 as the country spiraled deeper into civil war. Mazen Darwish, head of the Syrian…
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