News and Press Releases

Maharashtra-based journalist Shashikant Warishe has been killed by a local realty broker hours after releasing a report alleging the broker had...

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

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today published its full annual report on journalists and media staff killed in 2022. The 32nd...

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

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...

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

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

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

Rappler CEO, Nobel Laureate and veteran journalist Maria Ressa has been acquitted of ‘politically motivated’ tax evasion charges at the Court of Tax...

Ashiqul Islam, district correspondent of the Daily Monitor and a reporter for local daily Brahmanbaria Patrika was hacked to death in a knife- attack...

Bangladesh police are investigating the alleged ‘suicide’ of a female journalist Shabnam Sharmin after a member of her family filed a ‘case’ against...

A Quezon City Trial Court has convicted Baguio journalist Frank Cimatu of cyber libel over a Facebook post made in 2017. The International Federation...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) remains deeply concerned at the ongoing destruction of independent media and press freedom in Hong...

Sixteen journalists and media workers lost their lives in the Asia Pacific region in 2022, the second highest rate of killings globally, the...

Hong Kong media magnate and Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to five years and nine months imprisonment on December 10 for breaching...