More than 23 hours a day in a Chinese prison cell. Virtually no access to sunlight or medical care or exercise. Those are the conditions 76-year-old Jimmy Lai has endured day after day, year after ...

The forced closure of Lai’s Apple Daily newspaper and Stand News in 2021, and the conviction of Stand News editors last month ...

Lai, who founded the now-defunct pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, protested in favor of democratic freedoms -- such as ...

A bipartisan, bicameral group of lawmakers gathered Sept. 18 to call for the immediate release from prison of prominent Hong ...

A Hong Kong's prominent media professional group says dozens of journalists, some of their family members and other associates were harassed this summer.

With authorities now empowered to prevent unwanted visitors from even boarding flights to Hong Kong, HKFP rounds up prominent ...

John Moore’s photo of a 2-year-old asylum seeker and her mother being detained was named photo of the year in the World Press Photo contest. By James Estrin The award winners were announced ...

Japan ranked 68th among 180 countries and regions in the 2023 World Press Freedom Index released on May 3 by Reporters Without Borders, an international nonprofit organization. According to the ...

Press freedom is not just a fundamental pillar of democracy, but a measure of its vitality. For the International Day of Democracy on September 15, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) compared the results ...