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Prominent investigative journalist Yelena Milashina has been badly beaten and had fingers broken by masked men as she travelled to a court in Grozny,…

La Unión de Periodistas, Artes Gráficas y Ramas Anexas (UPAGRA) expresó en un comunicado su rechazo a la detención indebida y retención de elementos…

Russian investigative journalist Yuri Shchekochikhin, deputy editor of the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, died suddenly on 3 July 2003 with what…

There were 44 cases of media and journalists’ rights violations during the first half of 2023 in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, according to a report…

Journalist Ghazi Ghareeb Zorab, who is seeking asylum in the UK, was detained on 26 June at the Dallas Court Immigration Centre in Salford, near…

Lissette Ormaza, periodista del canal Majestad TV de Santo Domingo, sufrió un accidente con su vehículo el 20 de junio, cuándo otro automóvil desde el…

Nepali journalists and media workers have been subjected to a series of media rights violations in June by criminal groups, media outlet leadership,…

The undersigned organisations call on the incoming Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union to place media freedom and human rights…

Journalist Merdan Yanardağ, editor-in-chief of Turkish broadcaster TELE1, was arrested on 27 June following a judicial investigation into his…

The President of the Turkish Cypriot Press Workers’ Union (Basın-Sen), journalist Ali Kişmir, was forced to resign from the online channel TV20…

Exiled Afghan journalist Mohammad Tahir Sadid has been detained in Islamabad by local police, with some reports alleging a ransom was elicited for his…

The body of journalist Abdur Rauf Alamgir has been found floating in a river in the Indian state of Assam on June 26, after reports emerged of his…

La décision de placer à la tête du Journal du dimanche (JDD) un ancien directeur d'un hebdomadaire d'extrême droite relance le débat sur…

A combination of unconstitutional legislation signed by the Tunisian President and administrative orders pushed by the Speaker of the Parliament and…

EU governments want to authorise the spying of journalists and their sources on vague grounds of “national security”. The International and European…

Journalist Reza Shahir was reportedly detained by the Taliban for two days while returning to Afghanistan from Iran to renew his passport. The…