New Zealand’s Ardern labels anti-vaccine mandate protests ‘imported’ as crowds defy calls to leave
Wellington, New ZealandReuters New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday she felt demonstrations against a COVID-19 vaccine mandate now entering their second week were an “imported” phenomenon, and nothing like anything she had seen before in the country. Hundreds of protesters continue to occupy lawns in front of the distinctive ‘Beehive’ parliament for […]
Essay: Increasing numbers of physical attacks on European journalists as they report on COVID and other stories
In an article first published on The Conversation, SARA TORSNER, a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Sheffield’s Centre for Freedom of the Media, says the rising incidence of attacks on journalists sends a “worrying signal” about media freedom…