The Cairo Criminal Court extended the pretrial detention of photojournalist Mahmoud Abou Zied, also known as Shawkan, indefinitely.
via Daily News Egypt: http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2015/02/16/photojournalist-shawkans-detention-extended-indefinitely/
The well known photojournalist has already been detained for 552 days without trial.
via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/white-house-remote#.VOIH0kL_un1
Photographers covering the White House have to deal with many restrictions on when and where we can snap the president. For most events, we can only work in designated areas which provide little movement and not much choice in how we can take our photos
The network said its audience should have the option to see the video of a burning pilot, which was posted with a warning that it was extremely graphic.
In a statement, John Moody, the executive editor of Fox News, said that after careful consideration the network felt that giving its audience “the option to see for themselves the barbarity of ISIS outweighed legitimate concerns about the graphic nature of the video. Online users can choose to view or not view this disturbing content.”
A year after the president’s promise to rein in warrantless, illegal mass surveillance, he’s revealed a plan that does nothing to fix the most egregious elements of American spying.
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2015/02/04/obamas-empty-surveillance-pr.html
A year after the president’s promise to rein in warrantless, illegal mass surveillance, he’s revealed a plan that does nothing to fix the most egregious elements of American spying.
Few things make photojournalist Bünyamin Aygün flinch anymore.
But hearing even a second of his strained voice on a video from last January is too much.
The Australian Peter Greste, who was imprisoned over a year ago, was quickly deported.
via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/egypt-frees-australian-one-of-three-jailed-al-jazeera-journalists/2015/02/01/52380912-aa38-11e4-ad71-7b9eba0f87d6_story.html?wprss=rss_world
Australian Peter Greste immediately boarded a plane for Cyprus and is in good health, according to a report posted online by his employer, the English language branch of the Al Jazeera network.
This installation by Zoulikha Bouabdellah, exhibited at the Pavillon Vendôme in Clichy, was taken down by the photographer and Christine Ollier, following a complaint from a Muslim association. Where are we headed? Were the demonstrations of January 11th all for nothing?
Activists will today deliver a petition to Facebook demanding the company not censor the images.
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2015/01/27/facebook-is-censoring-images-o.html
The nonprofit group International Campaign for Tibet will today deliver a petition to Facebook headquarters demanding that the company not censor images of Tibetan monks’ self-immolation.
EDITOR’S NOTE: On January 29, 2015, reports in the Colombian press said Johanny Vargas issued a statement saying he had not been kidnapped and that his disappearance occurred under personal circumstances. CPJ is investigating. Bogotá, January 23, 20
Link: http://www.cpj.org/2015/01/colombian-photojournalist-escapes-kidnappers.php
“We are relieved that photojournalist Johanny Vargas is home safe and sound,” said Carlos Lauría, CPJ’s senior program coordinator for the Americas, from New York. “Colombian authorities must thoroughly investigate his kidnapping, bring those responsible to justice, and ensure Vargas’s safety.”
Guardian revelations that GCHQ kept e-mails of journalists renews debate in Britain over surveillance powers.
via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/edward-snowden-files-reveal-gchq-scooped-up-journalist-e-mails/2015/01/19/40b64644-028a-45a6-b025-fd0d4cf83a2c_story.html?wprss=rss_world
E-mails from the Guardian, The Washington Post, Reuters, the New York Times, NBC, Le Monde, the BBC and the Sun were among 70,000 harvested in November 2008 — collected in less than 10 minutes — as part of a GCHQ test exercise
Update: There have been new developments. Please see below. There’s a new bill passing through the Arkansas State Legislature that may be concerning to
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/01/16/arkansas-bill-criminalizes-capturing-possessing-certain-camera-drone-photos/
The bill goes on to state that possessing and distributing photos that were captured by unlawful drone usage is also an offense, and that unlawful drone usage puts you at risk of civil lawsuits and $1,000 for each photo of a person or property photographed unlawfully.
The cartoon depiction of Muhammad on Charlie Hebdo’s new cover has presented another editorial judgment to news media about whether to republish it.
“Here’s the thing that troubles me: This is a time when, regardless of your decision to publish or not, we need to stand together behind the principle of freedom of expression. I’d hate to see this become divisive.”
Prosecutors say a former CIA officer provided classified information to James Risen of the New York Times.
via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/va-prosecutors-will-not-call-reporter-in-leak-case/2015/01/12/2b6f273c-9a72-11e4-bcfb-059ec7a93ddc_story.html
That — at least for now — is the resolution to the strange saga of James Risen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author who resisted prosecutors’ efforts to compel his cooperation in a leak case to the highest levels of the American justice system
David Cameron says there should be no “means of communication” which “we cannot read” — and no doubt many in his party will agree with him, politically. But if they un…
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2015/01/13/what-david-cameron-just-propos.html
David Cameron says there should be no “means of communication” which “we cannot read” — and no doubt many in his party will agree with him, politically. But if they understood the technology, they would be shocked to their boots.
Most legacy news media organizations said Wednesday that they have no plans to publish or broadcast photos of Charlie Hebdo cartoons portraying the Muslim prophet Mohammed, even as many new digital outlets ran the images.
via POLITICO: http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/01/old-and-new-media-split-on-muslim-cartoons-200735.html
Most legacy news media organizations said Wednesday that they have no plans to publish or broadcast photos of Charlie Hebdo cartoons portraying the Muslim prophet Mohammed, while many new digital outlets are running the images.
Subtitled “To restore the First Amendment Rights of Photographers.” A bill introduced by Steve Stockman (Republican from Texas) in the U.S. House of Representatives on January 2nd. Read it here. Won’t take you long—it’s short. Mike (Thanks to Jim Hughes).
via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2015/01/hr5893-the-ansel-adams-act.html
Subtitled “To restore the First Amendment Rights of Photographers.”
A bill introduced by Steve Stockman (Republican from Texas) in the U.S. House of Representatives on January 2nd
James Risen of The New York Times took the stand but did not answer any questions that could help the Justice Department identify his confidential sources.
“If you took away all the things that the press revealed to begin with in the war on terror, you would know virtually nothing about the history of the last 13 years,” James Risen said
Months after her husband was hit by a truck, Anita Chanko watched him die again on “NY Med,” a medical series. But she hadn’t given permission for those moments to be aired.
“I saw my husband die before my eyes.”
No one in the Chanko family had given “NY Med” permission to film Mr. Chanko’s treatment at the hospital or to broadcast the moments leading up to his death.
Photojournalist Mahmoud Abou Zied, also known as Shawkan, re-affirmed his innocence, saying “I am a photojournalist, not a criminal”, in an open letter he sent from prison on Saturday.
via Daily News Egypt: http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2014/12/20/photojournalist-shawkan-describes-endless-nightmare-behind-bars/
He was arrested on 14 August 2013 while covering the forced dispersal of the protest camp set up in Rabaa Al-Adaweya in support of the ousted president Mohamed Morsi. International watchdog Human Rights Watch said “at least 817 and likely well over 1,000 people were killed” during the dispersal of this camp alone.
We’ve long known the Justice Department’s stance on transparency has been hypocritical and disingenuous. But they’ve really outdone themselves this time.
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2014/12/17/obamas-justice-department-s.html
We’ve long known the Justice Department’s stance on transparency has been hypocritical and disingenuous. But they’ve really outdone themselves this time.