News and Press Releases

The Global Times, a Chinese state-run media outlet published a report yesterday about a smear campaign against the IFJ’s Hong Kong affiliate, the Hong…

There is now clear evidence that hundreds of thousands of social media accounts are being used to spread disinformation about Hong Kong’s ongoing…

Authorities in Puntland, an autonomous region of Somalia, announced on 22 September that all the independent media houses and journalists operating in…

The Pakistan government has announced a plan to introduce media courts to regulate the press. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and…

Mary Ekere, a journalist with The Post Newspaper in Uyo city, Nigeria, was arrested on Monday, 16 September by the authorities for taking photos of a…

Journalists covering the demonstration in front of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in Jakarta, on Friday, September 13, were harassed,…

A website was recently found to have purported to post personal information of journalists in Hong Kong. The International Federation of Journalists…

The offices of Abante Tonite, a leading Philippines tabloid were stormed by four men and set alight in an arson attack on Monday, September 9 in…

Union leaders from the Nepal Press Union (NPU) and the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) were among nine journalists arrested as they protested…

Pakistani journalist Zafar Abbas, who had been missing since September 7, was found dead five days later in Punjab, in eastern Pakistan. The…

Since August 5, the Indian government has imposed a shutdown of the internet in Jammu & Kashmir. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and…

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…

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) welcomed the commitment of the Palestinian government to delivering on its promises for media sector…

The Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC), Sri Lanka’s state-run broadcaster has been moved from the purview of the Media Ministry to the Defence…

In the past week journalists have come under threat in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, targeted by authorities for simply doing their job. The International…

A court in Hargeisa city, located in Somalia’s northern breakaway region of Somaliland, ordered on September 4 the blocking of Hadhwanaag news…