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At least six journalists working for different media outlets received death threats from unidentified persons through text messages and social media…

Four Sudanese journalists were arrested by local security forces on 12 February due to alleged "incitement of acts of violence, sabotage, and looting…

Catarina Andreeva and Darja Chulcova, two journalists for Belsat, the Polish satellite television station aimed at Belarus, have each been sentenced…

The Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), the pan-African organisation of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), notes with serious…

Social media giant Facebook has restricted all Australian news media organisations from posting content to the platform from February 18, blocking all…

The Covid-19 pandemic has become a pretext for an authoritarian crackdown in Bangladesh, where the government has arrested several journalists,…

A clampdown on communications in Myanmar has seen at least five journalists arrested and official warnings sent to media threatening harsh jail…

The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ/EFJ) demand Belarusian authorities to stop immediately the persecution of journalists…

The Turkish Association of Journalists (GCD) published today its Annual Media Monitoring Report documenting the state of press freedom in Turkey for…

An Afghan journalist affiliated with the Pajhwok News Agency has survived an assassination attempt by armed assailants in Faryab province on February…

Four media workers’ unions in Japan have demanded gender equality in Japan’s media and call for stronger female representation in the industry, which…

La Federación Internacional de Periodistas (FIP) apoya la petición de sus afiliados en Brasil, Perú y Uruguay para que los/as trabajadores/as de los…

Freelance producer Adel Al-Hasani has been held for more than six months after being arrested by Yemeni armed forces over his alleged support for both…

At least nine journalists have been targeted by police by arrests, intimidation and criminal charges over reporting and online posts about the ongoing…

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was banned in China on February 12, one week after it was accused of false reporting and after 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…