News and Press Releases

Italian government threatens to cut indirect state funding to the press, accusing newspapers of “polluting the debate”. The International Federation…

Saudi-led coalition airstrike targeted a radio station in Yemeni western province of Hudaydah killing at least four people on Sunday 16 September,…

Ahead of presidential elections in the Maldives on September 23, allegations have emerged of foreign journalists been denied visas to cover the…

The International Federation of Journalists today hosted in Brussels the first meeting of Iranian journalists based in Europe to identify common…

Le journaliste Hassan Murhabazi, disparu depuis mardi 11 Septembre à Bukavu (Sud-Kivu), en République Démocratique du Congo, a été retrouvé dans la…

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…

For the first time, members of the European Parliament called on the European Union to sanction one of its Member States, Hungary, on Wednesday 12…

The International Federation of Journalists has welcomed a European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruling that the UK government violated press freedom…

Austrian journalist Max Zirngast has been detained together with two other Turkish citizens, in the early hours of 11 September by anti-terror…

Yesterday, Malaysia’s Dewan Negara (the Senate of Parliament) rejected the Anti Fake News (Abolition) Bill 2018, a decision which has been labelled a…

El Parlamento Europeo aprobó con una inmensa mayoría la Directiva sobre Derechos de Autor para el Mercado Único Digital (DSM). Se trata de un paso muy…

On 12 September, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the verdict delivered by the Moscow City Court to Ukrinform journalist Roman…

La Fédération internationale des journalistes (IFJ) condamne fermement la campagne de diffamation lancée sur les réseaux sociaux contre Neji Bghouri,…

La Federación Colombiana de Periodistas (FECOLPER) denunció este 11 de septiembre que cuatro periodistas y cinco medios alternativos de Bogotá fueron…

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has branded the decision of an Egyptian court to free photojournalist Shawkan as "long overdue".