News and Press Releases

Siddique Kappan, a senior journalist who was held in custody for 28 months, was released on bail on February 2. The International Federation of…

Charges against BOL TV anchor Imran Riaz Khan for comments critical of state institutions and the Pakistan administration have been dismissed by a…

Business tycoon and owner of L’Anecdote media group, Jean Pierre Amougou Belinga, was arrested “at dawn” on 6 February, in connection with the…

At least 73 violations of media and journalists’ rights, including arbitrary arrests, physical attacks, the closing of TV channels, and the…

The IFJ has warned journalists against the circulation of fake International Press Cards in Pakistan. 

A Russian court on 1st February has sentenced in absentia veteran journalist Alexander Nevzorov to eight years in prison for spreading so-called…

On the second anniversary of the military coup in Myanmar, the Global Unions, representing 200 million workers worldwide, call for renewed global…

On the second anniversary of the military coup in Myanmar, the South East Asia Journalists Unions (SEAJU) strongly condemned the military junta’s…

Según el reporte anual elaborado por la Federação Nacional dos Jornalistas (FENAJ) presentado el 25 de enero pasado, durante el año pasado hubo al…

Hoy se cumplen cuatro décadas de la primera masacre colectiva de periodistas sucedida en el mundo, en la que ocho trabajadores de prensa y un guía…

Freelance journalist Khairullah Parhar has been detained by the Taliban’s General Directorate of Intelligence (GDI) since January 9 in Nangarhar…

President of the Republic of Srpska Milorad Dodik has threatened to re-introduce defamation and insults as “criminal offences” in the Criminal Code of…

Veteran journalist and former regional AJI head Victor Mambor has reported the detonation of an explosive device outside his home on the morning of…

UPDATED 06.02.23 Thirty-four journalists are still in detention in Iran after being arrested since the outbreak of the national protests following the…

The managing director of Yaounde-based radio Amplitude FM, Martinez Zogo, and host of popular daily programme, Embouteillages, was abducted on…

Senior Pakistani journalist with BOL News, Shahid Aslam, has been granted bail following his arrest for his alleged role in leaking the financial data…