NEW YORK, Dec. 12 [Category: International] -- Human Rights Watch posted the following news: * * * China: Veteran Journalist Charged with 'Picking Quarrels' * (New York) - Chinese authorities have formally charged well-known journalist and author Du Bin (Du Bin ) with "picking quarrels and provoking trouble," Human Rights Watch said today. Police in Beijing took Du, 53, into custody on October 15, 2025, a day before he had scheduled trip to Japan, his sister said in a statement. He has since been held at Beijing's Shunyi Detention Center. more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 -- The House Education and Workforce Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development released the following written testimony by Jennifer Kabbany, editor-in-chief of the College Fix, from a Dec. 3, 2025, hearing entitled "Public Funds, Private Politics: Examining Bias in the Truman Scholarship Program": * * * Preface Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright once said of the federal Truman Scholarships that she could "easily see tomorrow's Cabinet members, elected representatives, nonprofit directors -- even more PR

BRUSSELS, Belgium, Dec. 12 -- The European Federation of Journalists posted the following news: * * * EU's dangerous 'Return Hubs' policy: a threat to journalists in exile * The EU's new return policy risks jeopardising the lives of vulnerable journalists and human rights defenders living in exile. As such, it undermines the very principles of press freedom and human rights it aims to uphold and the safe haven the EU seeks to provide for journalists from all over the world threatened for reporting on the truth. The European Federation of Jo more PR

NEW YORK, Dec. 12 [Category: Media] -- PEN America, an organization that says it stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression, posted the following news release: * * * Four Years After Pham Doan Trang's Sentencing, International Coalition Is Once Again Urging Her Release * (NEW YORK)PEN America joins calls by the #FreePhamDoanTrang coalition, for the immediate release of Vietnamese writer and PEN/Barbey 2024 Freedom to Write Awardee Pham Doan Trang. "Trang's imprisonment is not just an attack on one more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 -- The House Homeland Security Committee released the following testimony by Patrick Yoes, national president of the Fraternal Order of Police, from a Dec. 3, 2025, hearing entitled "When Badges Become Targets: How Anti-Law Enforcement Rhetoric Fuels Violence Against Officers": * * * Good morning, Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Thompson, and the other Members of the distinguished Committee on Homeland Security. My name is Patrick Yoes and I am the National President of the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP). I thank you for the more PR

NEW YORK, Dec. 12 [Category: Media] -- PEN America, an organization that says it stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression, posted the following news release: * * * Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi arrested in Iran, alongside other human rights defenders and journalists, one year after her temporary liberation * On 12 December 2025, plain clothed security forces violently detained 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi; other human rights defenders including Alieh Motalebzadeh, Sepideh Gho more PR

PARIS, France, Dec. 12 [Category: Media] -- Reporters Without Borders issued the following news: * * * Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi arrested in Iran, alongside other journalists and human rights defenders, one year after her temporary liberation. * On 12 December 2025, plain clothed security forces violently detained 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi; other journalists and human rights defenders including Alieh Motalebzadeh, Sepideh Gholian, Hasti Amiri, Pouran Nazemi; and other participants at the seventh day memorial cer more PR

CEDARVILLE, Ohio, Dec. 12 -- Cedarville University posted the following news: * * * Press Box Perspectives * by Rich Stratton, Assistant Director of Public Relations How Did Jeff Gilbert Turn a Sports Hobby Into a Career? Sports are Jeff Gilbert's passion. What started as a hobby of cutting out sports stories from newspapers and magazines and crafting his own narrative for each story has blossomed into a thrilling career as the beat reporter for the Ohio State Buckeyes football team and assistant professor of journalism at Cedarville Un more PR

CANBERRA, Australia, Dec. 12 -- The office of the Prime Minister of Australia issued the following news release: * * * Press conference - Tomago * MERYL SWANSON, MEMBER FOR PATERSON: Well, good morning everyone. It's great to be here and as the boss said, thunder struck this morning. And it was a sign, a really positive sign for not only this facility but for our region and quite frankly our nation. Tomago Aluminium is an important industrial piece in Australia and we all learned from COVID that we need to keep making things here in Austral more PR

CANBERRA, Australia, Dec. 12 -- The office of the Prime Minister of Australia issued the following news release: * * * Press conference - Tomago, NSW * MERYL SWANSON, MEMBER FOR PATERSON: Well, good morning everyone. It's great to be here and as the boss said, thunder struck this morning. And it was a sign, a really positive sign for not only this facility but for our region and quite frankly our nation. Tomago Aluminium is an important industrial piece in Australia and we all learned from COVID that we need to keep making things here in Au more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 -- Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * Rep. Becca Balint joins Members of Congress to Support Journalist Dylan Collins and Demand Accountability for Netanyahu Govt's Targeting of Journalists * WASHINGTON, D.C. Today, December 11th, Rep. Becca Balint (VT-AL) joined a press conference with Senator Peter Welch (D-VT), Vermonter and Agence France-Presse (AFP) video journalist Dylan Collins, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), and Amnesty Interna more PR

NEW YORK, Dec. 12 -- The Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following news release on Dec. 11, 2025: * * * US senator's revelations show Israel does not investigate war crimes against journalists; US and international community must step in US government failed in its duty to pursue accountability for American journalist Dylan Collins, targeted in the October 13, 2023, Israeli attack that killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah * Washington -- The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Amnesty International USA today joined U more PR

PARIS, France, Dec. 12 [Category: Media] -- Reporters Without Borders issued the following news: * * * Vietnam: Four years after Pham Doan Trang was sentenced, RSF and a coalition of NGOs call for her release * Ahead of the fourth anniversary of the sentencing of prominent Vietnamese journalist, Pham Doan Trang, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and an international coalition of NGOs call on the international community to intensify pressure on the Vietnamese authorities to secure her release. After being held incommunicado for more than a y more PR

BRUSSELS, Belgium, Dec. 12 [Category: Media] -- The International Federation of Journalists posted the following news release: * * * Yemen: IFJ joins calls for the removal of Abdulqader Al-Murtadha from Muscat negotiations * 12 December 2025 On 10 December, four recently freed Yemeni journalists addressed an urgent appeal to the UN Secretary-General, demanding the exclusion of Abdulqader Al-Murtadha (head of the Houthi Prisoner Affairs Committee) and his deputy Murad Qasem from the ongoing negotiations in Muscat, Oman, on the issue of abd more PR