Award-winning Syrian journalist Zaina Erhaim is unable to enter the United States due to the travel ban administered by President Trump last month. Accompanied by several other Syrian women, Erhaim was set to tour the United States, screening the second part of her documentary “Syria’s
Tweet to @NABEELRAJAB According to the Bahraini government, Nabeel Rajab is a repeat offender for spreading false news. He is currently being investigated for two different crimes. One for exposing the torture of detainees in Jaw Prison and another for “disseminating false rumours in time of war”
The United Kingdom might be seeing its own version of the infamous Gawker versus Hogan case play out in its own legal system, but with a twist. Section 40 is a new law that if enacted, will force publishers to pay for the legal expenses
The following article contains graphic images. “Tonight we have no house, it’s bombed & I got in rubble. I saw deaths and I almost died” – @AlabedBana. Bana Alabed tweets. She’s a seven-year-old girl living in Aleppo, Syria. Her Twitter account is managed by her
On November 17th, BBC News reporter John Sudworth went to the outskirts of Beijing to interview an independent candidate in a local election. Instead of getting the interview, Sudworth was met by an anonymous group of men preventing him and his camera crew from even stepping
Kosuke Tsuneoka, a Japanese freelance war correspondent was arrested by Kurdish authorities on November 1st. Tsuneoka, 46, was reporting on the Kurdish and Iraqi battle to recapture Mosul from Islamic State control. The Associated Press reports that he was captured by Kurdish peshmerga forces who
This is the third edition of a new MediaFile series. Every week the International section takes on the task of curating a list of five important world news stories that you may have missed this week because of news from the American election cycle. This week in
This is the second edition of our new MediaFile series. Every week the International section takes on the task of curating a list of five important world news stories that you may have missed this week because of news from the election cycle. Russian bombing