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Despite the hue and cry over freedom of speech and the fourth estate, media has been restricted to do its job over the FIFA event in Qatar  Media is having a hard time in the FIFA World Cup in Qatar , as the mini but rich Middle eastern country is preventing media from reporting anything from there. Apparently, the international media has been banned from the international sporting event. None of the well-known media houses are going to be allowed under a ban to report anything from Qatar . This includes the well-known names as BBC, ITV under the so-called filming permits that are given away by the Qatari government. In focus will be things like the accommodation sites of migrant workers, apart from footage “near or within” government buildings, universities, places of worship and hospitals, along with recording on “any privately owned property”, even with the owner’s consent. All this is prohibited and could lead to imprisonment as well. Media will be allowed to access onl...

Freedom of Speech and power of fourth estate might be becoming a farce in the free world... Threat of a chemical attack seems to be the easiest way to deter the ones fighting for truth and justice in Russia. This time, it’s a vocal newspaper service itself under the firing line. Novaya Gazeta was greeted with a chemical substance left outside its entrance, locking out the staff inside. There was no possibility to a conversation or moving out, unless the chemical substance was tested. The chemical substance is being investigated by Russian security services FSB. According to Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief, Dmitry Muratov, the newspaper is being targeted for having been a point of evidence gathering through the articles that the newspaper had written in an investigative project undertaken in 2019.   The incident that led to writing the articles was about related to the assassination of several Syrians under detention. Towards this, three NGOs have recently filed a lawsuit against Russ...