{"id":16209,"date":"2025-01-30T13:59:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T13:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmediauk.org\/?p=16209"},"modified":"2025-01-30T13:59:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T13:59:49","slug":"nma-comments-on-russian-arrest-warrant-for-uk-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmediauk.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/30\/nma-comments-on-russian-arrest-warrant-for-uk-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"NMA Comments On Russian Arrest Warrant For UK Journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Responding to the news that Russia has issued an arrest warrant for a UK journalist, News Media Association chief executive Owen Meredith said:&nbsp; <em>\u201cWe condemn in the strongest possible terms this attempt to criminalise and censor legitimate journalism.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cJournalism is not a crime and, as the Prime Minister\u2019s official spokesman noted this morning, British journalists shine a light into some of the darkest corners of the world so the public can see what is going on.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;As an industry, we stand united in support of The Sun&#8217;s Defence Editor Jerome Starkey and in the principles of press freedom which underpin our fundamental democratic rights.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/showbiz\/celebrity-news\/russian-downing-street-ukraine-kremlin-the-sun-b1208117.html\">Russian arrest warrant for UK journalist \u2018is desperate rhetoric\u2019, No 10 says<\/a> (<em>The Standard<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to the news that Russia has issued an arrest warrant for a UK journalist, News Media Association chief executive Owen Meredith said:&nbsp; \u201cWe condemn in the strongest possible terms this attempt to criminalise and censor legitimate journalism. \u201cJournalism is not a crime and, as the Prime Minister\u2019s official spokesman noted this morning, British journalists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-safetyofjournalists","news","safetyofjournalists"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - 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