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A group of foreign press associations is complaining about a recent series of threats, harassment and beatings against international news reporters working in China.

Villawood Immigration Detention Centre outside Sydney, Australia.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) speaks with Beyoncé during rehearsals in the General Assembly Hall for the recording of the song, “I Was Here.”

Dunja Mijatovic, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, addresses the Permanent Council, Vienna, 23 June 2011.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, who were charged with hate-motivated hooliganism and taken into custody on March 2012.

Protesters hold pictures of Bahrain human rights activist Nabeel Rajab during a march in Manama on June 8, 2012

The Chief Minister of West Bengal is once again in the news. This time the minister is critiqued for her comments on judicial corruption. However, if truth is the best defence, and if such a defence is bona fide, then in public interest none can blame the minister for her 'expressing opinion.' In fact, it is the constitutional duty of India's justice apparatus to protect every citizen wanting to exercise their right to free and just opinion.

A view of the Nuba Mountains in the state of Southern Kordofan