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Renowned journalist Hopewell Chin’ono was arrested by police on 8 January after tweeting about a video allegedly showing a police officer hitting a…

A Jordanian parliamentarian has accused media and journalists in the country of spreading misleading rumors and "poisoned ideas", amongst other…

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…

There were 138 violations of media and journalists' rights during 2020 in Iraqi Kurdistan, including arbitrary arrests and physical attacks, a new…

Three women journalists were detained and another was beaten by police on 5 January during a protest in the Turkish capital Ankara against the…

Bismillah Adil Aimaq, an Afghan journalist and human rights activist was killed by unidentified gunmen in Dara-e-Taimoor village in Ghor province of…

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…

Rahmatullah Nikzad, a reporter, photographer and chief of the Ghazni Journalists’ Union, was assassinated in the first district of Ghazni province by…

Rahmatullah Nikzad, a reporter, photographer and chief of the Ghazni Journalists’ Union, was assassinated in the first district of Ghazni province by…

Le Comité exécutif de la Fédération internationale des journalistes (FIJ), première organisation mondiale de la profession dans le monde représentant…

S V Pradeep, a Thiruvananthapuram based broadcast journalist, was killed in a hit-and–run road accident in suspicious circumstances on December 14.…

The National Writers Union (NWU) has joined forces with the subscription-based online publication Defector to agree a set of shared principles for…

The charges against journalist Hopewell Chin’ono exposed the increasing harassment of media workers by the Zimbabwean government during the Covid-19…

(UPDATED 4 NOVEMBER) A Harare court banned prominent lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa from defending journalist Hopewell Chin’ono, ruling she was in contempt of…

Pakistani authorities suspended satellite transmission of television channel News24HD from October 19 after it allegedly aired an opposition party…