Archiv: Pressefreiheit / freedom of the press


13.05.2026 - 04:30 [ Hüseyin Dogru / Substack ]

The German Government Prevented Me From Speaking About Press Freedom at the European Parliament.

(May 8, 2026)

As some of you might already know, my name is Hüseyin Doğru. I am a German citizen, a father of three, a journalist, and the founder of red., a now defunct English-language media outlet.

On 20 May 2025, I was placed on an EU sanctions list.

Not after a criminal conviction. Not after a trial. Not after a court had examined evidence against me.

I was placed on a list.

The reason given was not violence. It was not incitement. It was not a finding by any court. The reason was political: my journalism, my reporting on Gaza, and my coverage of Palestine solidarity protests in Germany were folded into the language of Russia, destabilisation, information manipulation and hybrid threats.

12.05.2026 - 08:18 [ TKP.at ]

EU-Sanktionsregime gegen eigene Bürger: Wie Brüssel und Berlin Journalisten ohne Gerichtsurteil vernichten

Alle haben eines gemeinsam: Sie berichten außerhalb des NATO-/EU-Narrativs – sei es zur Ukraine, zu Gaza oder zur Energiepolitik.

Die Folgen für die Betroffenen sind existentiell: Konten werden eingefroren, Zahlungen blockiert, Reisen innerhalb der EU unmöglich gemacht. Sogar Familienangehörige (wie die nicht sanktionierte Ehefrau von Hüseyin Doğru) werden mit „Sanktionsumgehung“ bedroht. Doğru beschreibt seinen Zustand treffend: „On an existential level, you’re reduced to zero.“ Ein Vater von fünf Kindern kann nicht einmal mehr Windeln oder Medikamente kaufen, ohne dass Helfer Gefahr laufen, selbst strafrechtlich verfolgt zu werden.

31.03.2026 - 09:09 [ Time Magazine ]

These Are the Journalists Israel Has Killed Since the Start of the Iran War

Al-Manar is owned by Hezbollah, but it is a civilian organization protected by international law. Hezbollah is a militant group, but also a political party with elected representatives in Lebanon’s parliament.

The strikes drew condemnation from press rights groups and leaders across Lebanon’s deeply divided political spectrum.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun called it “a blatant crime that violates all norms and treaties under which journalists are granted international protection during armed conflicts”.

19.03.2026 - 13:17 [ Tucker Carlson / Youtube ]

Glenn Greenwald: War Updates, False Flags, and Netanyahu’s Desperate New Attempt for Power

Throughout the west, criticizing the Netanyahu government is now a crime punishable by imprisonment. Glenn Greenwald on the end of free speech.

15.03.2026 - 22:43 [ The Young Turks / Youtube ]

BREAKING: Tucker Carlson Might be Arrested! Find Out Why!

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15.03.2026 - 22:24 [ Tucker Carlson / X ]

When you discover the CIA has been reading your texts in order to frame you for a crime.

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15.03.2026 - 22:09 [ Yahoo ]

‘Treason’: GOP Lawmaker Trashes Tucker Carlson — Calls for Him to Be Imprisoned If He ‘Worked With Iran’

Miller shared his blunt assessment of Carlson and the situation he’s in on Sunday, one day after Carlson claimed the Justice Department would soon charge him for being an unregistered foreign agent; Carlson said he was being targeted for “talking to people in Iran before the war,” which he said the CIA found out by spying on his text messages.

The congressmen said that if Carlson is telling the truth — and if he really committed “treason” — he has to pay the price.

15.03.2026 - 21:54 [ Glenn Greenwald / Substack ]

CIA Prepares Criminal Referral of Tucker Carlson, as Israel and its Loyalists Demand His Arrest

On Friday morning, I taped an appearance on Tucker Carlson’s program to discuss the ongoing Iran War, growing Israeli influence in the U.S., and proliferating attacks on free speech in the West in the name of shielding that one foreign country from critique (I presume it will air in the next few days). Perhaps the most notable part of our conversation was what Tucker told me prior to the cameras rolling.

Tucker said he had learned from several high-placed sources — and he obviously has many within the Trump administration — that the CIA was preparing a criminal referral about him to the DOJ. The subject of the agency’s report of suspected crimes: conversations he allegedly had with Iranian officials and others in Iran prior to the start of the Trump/Netanyahu war. The clear implication was that Tucker had committed acts of subversion or even treason by speaking to Iranians in advance of the war that was about to be launched on their country.

15.03.2026 - 21:28 [ theHill.com ]

FCC chair threatens networks’ licenses after Trump complains about Iran coverage

“Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions — also known as the fake news — have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up,” Carr wrote in a post on the social platform X.

“The law is clear. Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if they do not,” he warned.

15.03.2026 - 21:26 [ Mother Jones ]

FCC Chair Threatens to Revoke Broadcast Licenses Over Iran War Coverage

Amid surging oil prices and an unpopular war of choice in Iran, Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr is threatening not to renew the licenses of broadcasters for “running hoaxes and news distortions.” The Saturday post from Carr on X is not subtle: It explicitly warns broadcasters that they “have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up.”

Carr’s missive came in response to a Truth Social post on Saturday from President Donald Trump, which the FCC chair included in full as a screenshot.

09.02.2026 - 19:42 [ Times of Israel ]

Yair Golan says party will seek communications portfolio amid government’s attacks on media

“Netanyahu wants mouthpieces. He wants media outlets that will applaud him while he evades responsibility, praise him while he sacrifices Israel’s security, and remain silent while he protects advisers and aides who betrayed the state and received money from Qatar, the same Qatar that funded Hamas and the October 7 massacre,” Golan says, referring to the ongoing investigation into senior Netanyahu aides accused of lobbying on behlaf of Qatar during Israel’s war against Hamas while being employed by the premier’s office.

“He knows that a free and independent press poses a real threat to a corrupt government built on cover-ups. That is why he seeks to turn news channels into obedient, hollow mouthpieces that avoid criticizing him and his government,” he says.

07.12.2025 - 20:53 [ Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel ]

Post-7 October: A New Wave of Anti-Palestinian Israeli Laws

This report builds on Adalah’s position paper of 23 October 2024, which reviewed key bills at advanced stages of the legislative process, many of which were later enacted into law. The information contained in this report and the position paper also join Adalah’s online Discriminatory Laws Database in documenting about 100 Israeli laws that directly or indirectly discriminate against Palestinian citizens of Israel and Palestinians under Israeli occupation.

The laws examined in this report span multiple themes and violate numerous fundamental rights, including freedom of expression (FoE), protest, and thought; the right to citizenship and legal status; the rights to family life, equality, social benefits, and equality in the allocation of state resources; principles of criminal justice; and prisoners’ rights. While these violations are legitimized by the hostile public and political climate fueled by the war, their roots lie deep in Israel’s constitutional and political culture, which is based on the principle of Jewish ethno-national supremacy. These laws reinforce and entrench the ongoing pattern in Israeli law of creating and consolidating separate legal systems for Palestinians and Jews.

Notably, the trends identified in this report do not represent a fundamental shift in the state’s approach toward Palestinians. Even before the war, Adalah noted in its January 2023 position paper, which analyzed the current government’s guiding principles and coalition agreements, that the principles underpinning Israel’s system are based on Jewish ethno-national supremacy throughout all territory under its control. The government explicitly declared in its guiding principles, “The Jewish people have an exclusive and inalienable right over all areas of the Land of Israel.” These statements were not unprecedented but rather a direct continuation of the logic underlying the Jewish Nation-State Law, passed by the Knesset on 19 July 2018, and of the constitutional framework established since the state’s founding, reflected in its explicit ethno-national identity as a “Jewish and democratic” state. However, the crimes committed by Hamas and other armed groups in southern Israel on 7 October 2023 have been—and continue to be—used by Israeli authorities to justify intensifying these trends and further consolidating a regime of ethno-national supremacy on an even larger scale.

07.12.2025 - 20:36 [ +972 Magazine ]

Legislating apartheid: How Israel entrenched unequal rule during Gaza war

For over two years, Israeli public life has been shrouded in a heavy, disorienting fog. There has been an unending churn of crises, conflicts, and anxieties at home and abroad: the shock of the Hamas attack of October 7 and Israel’s genocidal campaign of revenge on Gaza, the fight to bring back the hostages and against the state’s vilification of their families, the reckless confrontations with Iran. Together, these have left Israeli society suspended in a collective stupor, obscuring the depth of the abyss into which we are rapidly descending.

But the same cannot be said of our parliamentarians. As a disturbing new report by the Haifa-based legal center Adalah shows, they have used the chaos of the past two years to advance more than 30 new laws entrenching apartheid and Jewish supremacy — joining Adalah’s existing list of now more than 100 Israeli laws that discriminate against Palestinian citizens.

One of the report’s central findings is a sweeping assault on freedom of expression, thought, and protest across a wide array of arenas. It includes laws prohibiting the publication of content that includes “denial of the events of October 7,” as determined by the Knesset, and restricting broadcasts of critical media outlets that “harm state security.”

21.08.2025 - 19:23 [ Media Freedom Coalition ]

Media Freedom Coalition Statement on Foreign Media Access to Gaza

In light of the unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, we, the undersigned members of the Media Freedom Coalition, urge Israel to allow immediate independent foreign media access and afford protection for journalists operating in Gaza.  

Journalists and media workers play an essential role in putting the spotlight on the devastating reality of war. Access to conflict zones is vital to carrying out this role effectively. We oppose all attempts to restrict press freedom and block entry to journalists during conflicts.    
We also strongly condemn all violence directed against journalists and media workers, especially the extremely high number of fatalities, arrests and detentions. We call on the Israeli authorities and all other parties to make every effort to ensure that media workers in Gaza, Israel, the West Bank and East Jerusalem – local and foreign alike – can conduct their work freely and safely. Deliberate targeting of journalists is unacceptable. International humanitarian law offers protection to civilian journalists during armed conflict. We call for all attacks against media workers to be investigated and for those responsible to be prosecuted in compliance with national and international law. 

We reiterate calls for an immediate ceasefire, the unconditional release of the remaining hostages, unhindered flow of humanitarian aid and for a path towards a two-state solution, long-term peace and security.  

Signed:

Australia
Austria
Belgium
Chile
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Iceland
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
New Zealand
Norway
Portugal
Sierra Leone
Slovakia
Slovenia
Sweden
Switzerland
Ukraine
the Netherlands
the United Kingdom

21.08.2025 - 19:19 [ ArabNews.com ]

27 nations call for ‚immediate‘ access to Gaza for foreign media

Twenty-seven countries, including Britain, France and Germany called on Israel Thursday to allow „immediate independent foreign media access“ into the besieged Palestinian territory of Gaza.

07.07.2025 - 17:57 [ TKP.at ]

Tucker Carlson interviewt Irans Präsident Masoud Pezeshkian

Unredigiertes, ins Deutsche übersetztes Transkript:

Tucker [00:00:00] Herr Präsident, vielen Dank, dass Sie sich Zeit genommen haben. Es gibt eine Pause oder zumindest scheint es eine Pause im Krieg zwischen den Vereinigten Staaten und dem Iran zu geben. Wie wird das Ihrer Meinung nach enden? Wie würden Sie sich ein Ende wünschen?

Masoud Pezeshkian [00:00:13] Wir waren die Initiatoren des Krieges. Wir haben diesen Krieg nicht begonnen und wir wollen auf keinen Fall, dass er weitergeht. Von Anfang an war es das Motto meiner Regierung, an dem ich mich immer gehalten habe, die nationale Einheit im Land zu fördern und auch den Frieden und die Ruhe sowie die Freundschaft mit den Nachbarländern und dem Rest der Welt zu stärken.

Tucker [00:00:45] Der amerikanische Präsident Donald Trump hat gesagt, dass die Vereinigten Staaten Ihre Anreicherungsanlagen bombardiert haben, weil die iranische Regierung sich geweigert hat, ihr Atomprogramm aufzugeben, und dass es keinen Frieden geben kann, solange der Iran dieses Atomprogramm nicht aufgibt. Wären Sie bereit, das Atomprogramm im Austausch für Frieden aufzugeben?

Masoud Pezeshkian [00:01:08] Ich möchte Ihnen erzählen, was passiert ist: Seit 1984 hat Netanjahu diese falsche Mentalität geschaffen, dass der Iran eine Atombombe anstrebt, und er hat unterstellt, dass der Iran in der Vergangenheit versucht hat, eine Atombombe zu entwickeln, und er hat dies in den Köpfen aller US-Präsidenten seitdem verankert und sie davon überzeugt, dass wir eine Atombombe haben wollen. Aber die Wahrheit ist, dass… in die Köpfe aller US-Präsidenten seitdem, um sie glauben zu machen, dass wir eine Atombombe haben wollen. Aber die Wahrheit ist, dass… Wir haben nie nach einer Atombombe gestrebt, weder in der Vergangenheit, noch in der Gegenwart oder in der Zukunft, weil dies falsch ist und im Widerspruch zu dem religiösen Dekret oder der Fatwa steht, die von seiner Eminenz, dem Obersten Führer der Islamischen Republik Iran, erlassen wurde. Es ist uns also religiös verboten, eine Atombombe anzustreben, und dies wurde dank unserer Zusammenarbeit mit der IAEO immer bestätigt, da sie immer vor Ort war, um dies zu überprüfen. Und um zu belegen, dass wir nie eine Atombombe wollten. Leider wurde diese Zusammenarbeit durch die rechtswidrigen Angriffe auf unsere Atomanlagen gestört.

21.06.2025 - 20:21 [ Communist Party of Israel ]

Far-Right Govt Crack Down on Freedom of Press and Coverage of War Damage in Israel

The move, which targets major international outlets such as Al Jazeera, CNN, France 24 and The New York Times, empowers the police, the Government Press Office (GPO), and the military censor to enforce stricter controls on foreign reporting of war-related damage inside Israel. According to the directive, enforcement will apply regardless of the media outlet for which the footage is being filmed. Police documented themselves obstructing camera views – images which were later aired, suggesting coordination between field officers and intelligence units. The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) has since become involved in enforcement.

The crackdown follows incidents on Tuesday in Beer Sheva, Holon, and Ramat Gan, where police arrived at rocket impact sites, confiscated camera equipment, and confronted journalists broadcasting live footage that appeared on Al Jazeera screens globally.

The enforcement has already reached Haifa. Early Tuesday morning, police knocked on the door of a hotel room overlooking the city’s bay area, where two foreign photographers were staying, and confiscated their equipment.
According to police, the action followed a tip that individuals intended to record from a balcony facing Haifa Port.

04.05.2025 - 09:13 [ Foreign Press Association in Israel ]

The Foreign Press Association Calls for Immediate Access to Gaza for Journalists [January 23, 2025]

The Foreign Press Association strongly urges the Israeli government to immediately lift restrictions preventing foreign journalists from entering Gaza.

04.05.2025 - 09:09 [ Times of India ]

Israel urged to give media ‚unrestricted‘ Gaza access

The association criticised Israel for an „unprecedented ban preventing foreign journalists from entering Gaza“, calling the decision a „mark of shame for a country that claims to be a beacon of democracy“.
The FPA, which has filed an appeal with the Israeli Supreme Court challenging the ban, said its members „salute our Palestinian colleagues who continue to report the story at great personal risk“.

15.03.2025 - 06:46 [ Deadline.com ]

Donald Trump, In DOJ Speech, Calls CNN And MSNBC “Illegal” For Reporting Negatively On Him

“I believe that CNN and MSDNC, who literally write 97.6 percent bad about me, are political arms of the Democrat party, and in my opinion, they are really corrupt and they are illegal,” Trump said, again using his nickname for MSNBC.

He also bashed other outlets, including CBS, NBC, ABC, The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, for their reporting. He claimed that the mainstream outlets were influencing judges and “I don’t believe it’s legal.”

23.02.2025 - 07:16 [ Rubikon -Magazin.ch ]

Der Rubikon ist zurück!

Nach nunmehr fast zwei Jahren der Vorbereitung mit sicherer Infrastruktur aus der Schweiz und also einem Land, in dem die Pressefreiheit noch etwas zählt. Mit regelmäßigen Beiträgen gewichtiger Stimmen aus Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft wie Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, Prof. Michael Meyen, Marcus Klöckner, Michael Ballweg, Ivan Rodionov, Jens Lehrich und vielen anderen mehr.

Als Chefredakteur konnten wir mit Dr. Philipp Gut einen der renommiertesten Journalisten der Schweiz gewinnen, der bis Dezember 2019 Inlandchef und stellvertretender Chefredaktor der Weltwoche war.

Um unsere Utopie real werden zu lassen, haben wir soeben unter www.rubikon.news unser Crowdfunding gestartet.

11.02.2025 - 21:13 [ Patreon.com ]

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11.02.2025 - 20:49 [ Richard Medhurst / Youtube ]

Journalist Richard Medhurst Raided and Detained

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11.02.2025 - 20:10 [ Krone.at ]

Mitglied der Hamas? Terror-Razzia gegen Sohn von Nobelpreisträgern

(February 8, 2025)

Medhursts Mutter und Vater hatten 1988 als Teil eines UN-Kontingents symbolisch den Friedensnobelpreis für die Blauhelme bekommen. Jetzt der brisante Verdacht gegen ihn nach Paragraf 278b: Mitgliedschaft in einer terroristischen Vereinigung! Dafür drohen bis zu zehn Jahre Haft.

11.02.2025 - 20:05 [ Consortium News ]

Austrian Police Detain Richard Medhurst; Accuse Him of Being Hamas Member; UK Extends Probe Against Him

(February 7, 2025)

“I categorically deny all of these accusations by the Austrian and British governments, I’m a journalist, not a terrorist, and they bloody-well know it,” Medhurst said in his video. He added that he was a Christian being accused of belonging to Hamas, an Islamist organization resisting Israel’s occupation of Gaza.

Medhurst said the allegations by both countries were similar, but there has now been a “massive escalation” to accuse him of being a “member of a proscribed organization.” The British only accuse him of supporting the proscribed organization, Hamas, through his journalism.

“This is insanity,” he said. “This is an attack on the entire profession, on freedom of speech, on democracy itself.”

Medhurst said he could face up to 14 years of prison in Britain, plus 2-5 years if he doesn’t give them the passwords to his devices and perhaps 10 years in Austria.

11.02.2025 - 19:28 [ Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) ]

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights: STATE/ENTITY – United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

04 Dec 2024
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
JAL
GBR 15/2024
– terrorism
– freedom of opinion and expression
– freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
– privacy
Information received concerning the potentially inappropriate use of provisions of the Terrorism Act 2000, the Terrorism Act 2006, and the Anti-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019. These provisions appear to have been employed to investigate, detain, collect data, and prosecute political activists and journalists, raising concerns about potential infringements of their fundamental
rights.

Alleged victims: 6

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According to the information received:
Powers under counter-terrorism legislation have been used on multiple occasions to examine, detain, and arrest journalists and activists, particularly at the UK border. It is alleged that journalists and activists who are critical of Western foreign policy in the context of the conflict in the Middle East and the Russia-Ukraine war are especially affected by the reported misuse of these powers. In particular, schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000, and schedule 3 of the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019, have been used to examine and obtain data from journalists and activists, including Johanna Ross (Ganyukova), John Laughland, Kit Klarenberg, Craig Murray and Richard Medhurst in circumstances where they appear to have no credible connection to “terrorist” or “hostile” activity. Furthermore, section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000 has been used to charge journalists and activists, including Richard Barnard and Richard Medhurst, for allegedly expressing support for a “proscribed organisation” in the course of activism and media reporting.

Without having knowledge of the material that may have substantiated the investigations or charges, we raise concern about an alleged pattern of overuse, or other misuse, of counter-terrorism legislation to target legitimate freedom of expression and opinion, including public interest media reporting, and related freedoms of peaceful assembly and association, and political
dissent or activism.

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Ben Saul
Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism

Irene Khan
Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression

Gina Romero
Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association

Ana Brian Nougrères
Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy