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A court in Teheran sentenced journalist Mohammad Mosaed to four years and nine months in prison and banned him from any journalistic activity for two…

A crowd stormed and burned down Iraqi broadcaster Dijlah TV's headquarters in Baghdad on September 1, as protesters accused the station of…

Egyptian prosecutors have brought additional charges against two journalists who have been in pretrial detention since autumn 2019. The International…

Cartoonist Emad Hajjaj was arrested on Wednesday August 26 for "disturbing relations with a sister country” in a cartoon. The International Federation…

Leaders of the global trade union movement have called on the Sudanese government to immediately halt the forced dissolution of trade unions and…

Iranian censors have shut down Jahan Sanaat newspaper after it reported the comments of a health professional about the real number of Coronavirus…

A court in Algeria sentenced journalist Khaled Drareni to three years in prison on 10 August after he had reported on the anti-government…

UPDATE - 14.19 CEST - Lebanese journalists union says 17 journalists have been injured, 3 seriously.

Le journaliste Taoufik Ben Brik  a été condamné le 23 juillet à un an de prison ferme. La Fédération internationale des journalistes (FIJ) soutient…

Une proposition de loi sur les médias actuellement en discussion au parlement libanais pourrait exclure les médias électroniques de son champ…

Une proposition de loi sur les médias actuellement en discussion au parlement libanais pourrait exclure les médias électroniques de son champ…

Le 24 juillet, neuf fédérations syndicales internationales (FSI) - dont la FIJ - ont déclaré publiquement leur soutien au mouvement syndical algérien,…

Plus de la moitié des femmes journalistes ont été confrontées à une augmentation des inégalités femmes-hommes en raison de la pandémie de COVID-19 ,…

Journalist Mohamed Mounir died on 15 July after contracting Covid-19 in jail, where he had spent a month after his arrest on 15 June. The…

After years of resisting demands to pay for news, Google said in a surprise announcement on 25 June it had reached  deals with a number of news…

Turkish authorities have told Iranian journalists Arash Yavari and his wife Masoomeh Hatamkhani, who is also a journalist, to leave the country and go…