News and Press Releases

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj last week banned the opposition media news site Strana.ua and imposed sanctions on its editor-in-chief, Ihor…

The threat of extradition grew for Julian Assange yesterday as a judge ruled that the US could expand the basis of its appeal.

The Polish parliament is discussing measures to ban non-European owners from controlling more than a 49% stake in Polish media companies. The move,…

The preliminary hearing of the US government's appeal against the decision not to extradite journalist Julian Assange started on 11 August at the High…

Ivan Safronov, a former journalist imprisoned since 7 July 2020 on charges of "high treason", has been facing harsher conditions since the publication…

Turkey's Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) has threatened broadcasters with sanctions if they are found to have covered wildfires raging…

An independent inquiry into the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia published on 29 July found that the Maltese state bears responsibility for…

A court in Gomel, Belarus, declared on 27 July that the news website and social networks of the independent Polish channel Belsat TV were to be…

Informar sobre la pandemia de la Covid-19 ha sido un verdadero reto para los/as periodistas. Ahora, la aparición de nuevas variantes del virus como la…

In an unprecedented attack on the independent representative organisation of journalists in Belarus, the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ),…

The Luxembourg Parliament approved on 8 July a new aid scheme that aims at fostering media pluralism and offers support to digital and emerging media,…

The Belarusian regime is intensifying its crackdown on journalists and their representative organisation, the Belarusian Association of Journalists…

Dutch journalist Peter R. de Vries has died on 15 July at the age of 64, days after being shot five times in the street in Amsterdam in a targeted…

The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) is to report incidents of violence against journalists and videographers covering the Euro 21 football final…

Georgian journalist Alexander Lashakarava was found dead at his home on 11 July 2021, a week after he was severely beaten during the Pride march in…