News and Press Releases

A landmark piece of legislation, the Sindh Protection of Journalists and Other Media Practitioners Bill 2021 was passed unanimously by the Sindh…

Asad Ali Toor, an Aaj Television journalist and vlogger often critical of the Pakistani military, was attacked by unknown assailants in his apartment…

The Islamic Republic of Iran has intensified judicial pressures and harassment of independent and critical journalists as the campaign for the…

The managing editor of Frontier Myanmar, Danny Fenster, has been detained by Myanmar’s military at Yangon Airport on May 24. The International…

Al Amin Hossain, the Meherpur district correspondent for Daily Business Bangladesh, was arrested under the Digital Security Act (DSA) for publishing a…

The harassment of journalists throughout this year, perpetrated by Malaysian authorities, has raised concern from Malaysia’s media advocacy…

On May 7, Zulkiflee Anwar Alhaque, more popularly known as Zunar, was questioned by the Kedah police over a caricature of Kedah Menteri Besar Muhammad…

Palestinian journalists have faced arbitrary censorship, a wave of hate speech and threats of violence online over the past three weeks according to a…

Rozina Islam, an investigative journalist affiliated with Bangla daily Prothom Alo, was harassed, confined in a room by the health ministry and…

Faezeh Momeni, a reporter working for Ruydad 24 news website in Tehran, was beaten by the guard of a state vaccination center on 18 May, while she was…

Palestinian journalist Yusef Abu Hussein was killed after the Israeli military bombed his house in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza, while…

Following recent attacks on media in Palestine, International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) affiliates across the world have expressed solidarity…

Min Nyo, a reporter at Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) was sentenced to three years in jail under Section 505A of Myanmar's Penal Code on May 12. The…

Over the last week, the Israeli military bombed more than a dozen media offices in Gaza. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the…

Over the last month, Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo initiated a military crackdown in West Papua targeting journalists and human rights activists.…