News and Press Releases

A crowd stormed and burned down Iraqi broadcaster Dijlah TV's headquarters in Baghdad on September 1, as protesters accused the station of…

The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated challenges faced by media workers and journalists in Malaysia, according to a new report released today by the…

The Myanmar Telecommunications Ministry blocked the website for activist group Justice for Myanmar on September 1 for publishing information the…

Hong Kong authorities have denied the work visa of an editor for Hong Kong Free Press. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) rejects the…

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

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,…

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

El editorialista Hélio Schwartsman y el caricaturista Renato Aroeira fueron imputados en base a los postulados de la Ley de Seguridad Nacional,…

Después de que el presidente manifestara sus ganas de “reventarle la boca a golpes” a un periodista que lo consultó por la participación de su pareja…

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…

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…

The Covid-19 pandemic has worsened the press freedom situation in countries such as China, Russia, and Turkey, where authorities have used it as a…