Free Press
Rep. Mike Pitts introduced a bill Tuesday titled the South Carolina Responsible Journalism Registry that would allow for fines or prison time for any “person who works as a journalist without registering.”
A suicide bomber struck the minibus with workers from Tolo TV
The bomber targeted a vehicle owned by a company that works with Tolo News, Afghanistan's first 24-hour news channel
Two editors from the left-wing Cumhuriyet newspaper were arrested on Nov. 26, 2015.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Those who don't comply would face "fines and criminal penalties."
Hicham Mansouri had been working on a piece about electronic surveillance by the state when he was arrested.
The accused include editors from the state-owned Al-Ahram news website and Abdel-Haleem Kandeel, a well-known journalist.
Roman Imielski, managing editor for Gazeta Wyborcza, said on Twitter on Friday that correspondent Waclaw Radziwinowicz had been told to leave Russia.
The new rules will limit what journalists can see and how often they can visit the already highly restricted site.
Ahmad Mohamed al-Mousa was killed in the northern province of Idlib on Wednesday by unknown masked assailants.