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Human rights groups condemn sentence on journalist Sophia Huang Xueqin who was detained in September 2021
Lucy Frazer said she is ‘minded to’ send the Redbird IMI bid to the Competition and Markets Authority for a six-month inquiry
Foreign governments should not own British newspapers. Our Government seems to be listening
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This isn’t just a question of editorial independence. We must be realistic about what hostile states are up to
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Former CCN boss says concerns over involvement of Gulf State are 'misplaced'
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The free press lies at the heart of our democracy, and we cannot permit that to be undermined