News and Press Releases

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…

Cartoonist Emad Hajjaj was arrested on Wednesday August 26 for "disturbing relations with a sister country” in a cartoon. The International Federation…

Pakistan’s senate standing committee on information and broadcasting passed amendments on August 26 to the Press Council of Pakistan Bill (2020) and…

Recommendations into police raids on journalists and media organisations tabled by an Australian parliamentary committee on August 26 have rejected…

The Somali government has passed an amend of Somalia's Media Law that fails to comply with international standards on press freedom and freedom of…

The offices of Canal de Mocambique were attacked and set alight by unknown individuals around 8:00 pm on Sunday, 23 August, burning office equipment,…

Members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) working for Bullivant Media walked out on strike on 25 August to defend quality journalism, oppose…

A Danish journalist making a documentary on indigenous resistance against a controversial pipeline was denied entry to Canada by border officials…

The Shillong Times, the oldest English broadsheet newspaper in northeast India, was temporarily shut down by the local administration on August 23 for…

Media organisations in Indonesia have reported a spate of digital attacks directed at critical coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic. The International…

A judge in the US has ruled that journalists and legal observers are not subject to federal police officers' dispersal orders at protests taking place…

The Belarusian authorities have blocked access to several media websites and disrupted print media circulation, claiming that there are problems with…

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 Eswatini Communications Commission has been accused of continously rejecting community radio stations' applications for temporary broadcasting…

The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict has accused reporter Atom Araullo from GMA broadcast network of spreading inaccurate…

This week, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) coordinated regional and global efforts to call on authorities in Hong Kong and China to…