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Journalists Fortune Francis and Sunday George were assaulted and their mobile phones stolen while covering a political rally on July 22 in the capital…

Members of the Taliban forcibly closed a privately-owned station in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province after it held a mixed-gender journalism…

Journalist and publisher Badri Seshadri was arrested by Tamil Nadu state authorities for allegedly provocative remarks about the Chief Justice of…

UPDATE 09.08.2023 Senegalese journalist Pape Ale Niang was arrested by the police on July 29 following a live-streamed video on YouTube commenting on…

Every week the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is compiling a list of the top news articles from across the world in which it is…

On August 2, an armed man driving an ambulance in the northern occupied West Bank bearing the emblem of the national Israeli ambulance service, the…

Two media workers were shot by stray bullets fired by unknown assailants while attending a media tour of power stations outside Port Moresby. The…

A global anti-corruption investigation has claimed that a Solomon Islands newspaper accepted funding from Chinese authorities, allegedly in exchange…

UPDATED 02.08.23. Former Russian journalist Ivan Safronov who has been imprisoned for alleged "high treason" since 7th July 2020, was sentenced to a…

Daily press workers in many newsrooms are wearing black on Wednesdays to demand pay rises and improved working conditions, after more than a decade of…

Australia’s media worker union has made a submission to an Australian Government inquiry raising concerns over potential impacts of generative…

Mónica Velázques y Andersson Boscán se vieron forzados a abandonar el país luego de recibir amenazas e información que afirmaba que lxs periodistas…

The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ-EFJ) join its affiliate in Armenia, the Union of Armenian journalists (UAJ), in…

Freelance journalist Tharindu Uduwaragedara was detained and assaulted by police while reporting on a union-led protest in Colombo on July 28. The IFJ…

Following statements against the Italian Vice President of the Council of Ministers Matteo Salvini (far right), journalist Roberto Saviano saw the…

Every week the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is compiling a list of the top news articles from across the world in which it is…