Tag: Police raids
RSF condemns Hong Kong police storming of Apple Daily – 5...
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...
Elderly Pasifika man sobs as memories of Dawn Raids surface over...
By Barbara Dreaver, TVNZ News Pacific correspondent
As the New Zealand government confirmed it would apologise for the 1970s Dawn Raids against Pacific Islanders, memories...
‘Terror in our society that money can’t pay for’, Polynesian Panthers...
RNZ News
A co-founder of the Polynesian Panthers says the government should allow overstayers to remain in New Zealand after it formally apologises for the...
Appeal for NZ government to offer apology for race-based Dawn Raids
By Dominic Godfrey, RNZ Pacific journalist
A Pacific social justice movement is calling on the New Zealand government to formally apologise for the Dawn Raids...
High Court rules in favour of News Corp, but against press...
ANALYSIS: By Peter Greste of The University of Queensland
It is easy to assume Australia has a free press. Our squawky newspapers are filled with...
Australian court ruling another threat to whistleblower protection, says RSF
Pacific Media Watch
An Australian federal court decision upholding the legality of the police raid on the Sydney headquarters of the national public broadcaster ABC...
Indonesian police raid Papuan student dormitory with tear gas, arrest 43
By Ghinan Salman in Surabaya
As many as 43 Papuan students were taken to the district police headquarters after Indonesian police fired teargas and forced...
Australian police raids – Pacific angle on ‘media great threat to...
By Sri Krishnamurthi
The police raids on the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) and Newscorp's Sunday Telegraph journalist Annika Smethurst earlier this month have had a...
Press freedom under police attack – Democracy Now! probes ABC raid
Press freedom groups are sounding the alarm over a pair of police raids on journalists in Australia. Video: Democracy Now!
By Democracy Now!
Press freedom groups...
Police raids on ABC: The day news theory became reality
COMMENTARY: By Alexandra Menzies of UTS Central News in Sydney
As I stood out the front of the ABC's Sydney headquarters on Wednesday morning (June...
Media raids raise questions of police power over journalists, whistleblowers
ANALYSIS: By Denis Muller of the University of Melbourne
In their raids on media organisations, journalists and whistleblowers, the Australian Federal Police have shown themselves...
ABC raid ‘chilling’ for freedom of press, says editorial chief
How Al Jazeera reported yesterday's raid by Australian police on the offices of the national public broadcaster ABC. The raid was over a series...
RSF warns Australia over ‘grave threat’ to investigative journalism
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
After the latest Australian federal police raid targeting the media - this time the Sydney headquarters of the national public broadcaster...