News and Press Releases

In 3 May 1972, Daniel Ellsberg spoke at a peace rally in Washington DC. It was a year since he had leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times…

The staff of the Al-Rai al-Aam newspaper, suspended by the Sudanese authorities in January 2020, are protesting against the newspaper's suspension and…

On September 17, 2000, a well-known Ukrainian journalist and founder of popular Ukrainian online newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda, Georgiy Gongadze, was…

Nepal Police arrested Hareram Prasad Kurmi, one of the accused in the murder of Bara based journalist Birendra Shah 13 years ago. The International…

Francis Allan L. Angelo, editor-in-chief of the Daily Guardian newspaper based in Iloilo, Western Visayas region, was threaten by Plaridel Nava, a…

Lao blogger Houayheuang Xayabouly, known by her nickname Mouay, was detained in 2019 for criticising the region’s government for the mishandling of…

Journalist Jobert “Polpog” Bercasio was shot dead as he was riding a scooter in Sorgoson City, Sorgoson, Luzon on the evening of September 14. The…

La Cour d'appel d'Alger a condamné le 15 septembre le journaliste Khaled Drareni à deux ans de prison ferme pour avoir couvert les manifestations…

The South Sulawesi water and police unit have arrested three student journalists in Makassar while they were covering a protest to reject sand mining…

Liputan6.com journalist Cakrayuni Nuralam has been targeted by doxing attacks following an article in which the newsroom tried to verify connections…

The Express Tribune journalist Bilal Farooqi, arrested by Karachi police on September 11 for posting allegedly anti-military and sectarian posts on…

The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ/EFJ), respectively the world’s and Europe’s largest journalists’ organisations,…

On September 9, security forces arrested journalist Islam Al-Kalhi while he was covering the al-Moneeb protests sparked by the killing of a young man…

On 8 September, a member of the Armenian National Assembly brought forward a legislative proposal on insult and defamation that aims to increase fines…

“If you criminalise news gathering, you are criminalising journalism. It is a moral duty for journalists to protect sources. Many have gone to jail to…

Malaysia's media reform trajectory has been stymied by political change and increased violations against media workers, according to an international…