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Friday, 13 May 2022
** Concern over exclusion of journalists from UK Home Secretary's Rwanda visit
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Index has filed an alert with the Council of Europe over key media being unable to hold Priti Patel to account as she announces controversial migrant plan. Read the story here ([link removed]) . Photo: Flora Thompson/PA Wire/PA Images
** Another deadly year for journalists
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[link removed] Wednesday, Shireen Abu Akleh, a well-known and well regarded Palestinian-American journalist was killed while doing her job in Jenin. According to Committee for the Protection of Journalists Shireen is the 17^th journalist to have been killed in the line of duty in 2022.
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** Index and RSF welcome High Court’s decision in Realtid case
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Large parts of the libel case against the Swedish business and finance publication Realtid, its editor-in-chief, and two of its investigative journalists about articles relating to Eco Energy World have been thrown out.
The High Court’s decision comes fifteen months after a jurisdiction hearing aimed at deciding whether England and Wales is the appropriate jurisdiction for the defamation case to be heard.
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