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Veteran journalist Abdiaziz Mohamud Guled was killed on 20 November in a targeted attack by a suicide bomber in Mogadishu, the capital city of…

A journalist’s dead body was found on 12 November, a month after he went missing in Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria. The International Federation…

Hamid Saighani, a prominent journalist for Ariana television network, was killed in a bomb blast on a minibus in western Kabul on November 13. The…

Colombia’s National Protection Unit (UNP) has been accused of unlawfully collecting highly sensitive data about the movements of Claudia Julieta…

On October 21, Taliban militants attacked several journalists covering a protest rally organized by a group of women demanding “work, bread, and…

UNESCO and the International Federation of Journalists cordially invite you to participate in the Global Conference on Improving the Protection,…

Over seven weeks since the capture of Kabul by the Taliban, and the subsequent evacuation of western troops from the city, many journalists with close…

Prominent Afghan journalist and author Sayed Maroof Sadat, a former government spokesperson and an affiliate of radio ‘Sub Bakhair and Sham Bakhai’,…

El fotoperiodista Albert Garcia fue detenido el 18 de octubre de 2019 en la plaza Urquinaona mientras cubría para El País la manifestación a raíz de…

Radio stations Adeniya FM and Bandar Aden were suspended after police raided their headquarters in Mansourah, Aden governorate, on 27 September.…

CIA officials under the Trump administration plotted to kidnap and assassinate journalist and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange when he was hiding at…

Ces dernières semaines, des centaines de journalistes qui travaillaient en Afghanistan ont fui ou ont dû se cacher suite à l'arrivée au pouvoir des…

La police a convoqué le journaliste du site d'actualités Le Média, Thomas Dietrich, au commissariat de Puteaux (Île-de-France), où il a été interrogé…

Several countries and press freedom groups have warned of human rights violations in South Sudan, including the harassment of journalists and media…

A group of media support organisations, including the IFJ, has called on the Media Freedom Coalition (MFC) of governments to commit and take immediate…

La Federación Internacional de Periodistas (FIP) ha lanzado una campaña de solidaridad internacional para lxs periodistas afganxs a medida que crece…