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MYANMAR: Five journalists sentenced to 10 years in prison; 50 others face charges for a peaceful protest

17 July 2014 RAN

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Five journalists with the Unity weekly journal, arrested in January and February 2014, were each sentenced to 10 years in prison with hard labour on 10 July 2014 over a report about an Continue reading

IndexDrawtheLine: Can art or journalism ever be terrorism?

By Farah Wael / 14 July, 2014

Three Al Jazeera journalists were among those sentenced to prison on terrorism charges.

In 1997, British journalist Robert Fisk interviewed Bin Laden. Fisk was not accused of being a terrorist, he was only doing his job. For decades, journalists have been interviewing terrorists, Continue reading