News and Press Releases

RIA journalist Rostislav Zhuravlev was reportedly killed and three other journalists were injured during a Ukrainian attack in the Zaporizhzhia…

On 12 July, the International and the European Federations of Journalists (IFJ-EFJ) and the undersigned international media freedom organisations call…

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)' Gender Council condemns the shameful attack on investigative journalist Yelena Milashina, who was…

The results of the 2023 Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM), which have just been published, confirm the decline in media pluralism in Europe. Of the 32…

Spanish freelance reporter Pablo González, accused of spying for Russia, has been in pre-trial detention in Poland for more than 16 months without any…

Prominent investigative journalist Yelena Milashina has been badly beaten and had fingers broken by masked men as she travelled to a court in Grozny,…

Russian investigative journalist Yuri Shchekochikhin, deputy editor of the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, died suddenly on 3 July 2003 with what…

Journalist Ghazi Ghareeb Zorab, who is seeking asylum in the UK, was detained on 26 June at the Dallas Court Immigration Centre in Salford, near…

The undersigned organisations call on the incoming Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union to place media freedom and human rights…

Journalist Merdan Yanardağ, editor-in-chief of Turkish broadcaster TELE1, was arrested on 27 June following a judicial investigation into his…

The President of the Turkish Cypriot Press Workers’ Union (Basın-Sen), journalist Ali Kişmir, was forced to resign from the online channel TV20…

La décision de placer à la tête du Journal du dimanche (JDD) un ancien directeur d'un hebdomadaire d'extrême droite relance le débat sur…

EU governments want to authorise the spying of journalists and their sources on vague grounds of “national security”. The International and European…

Women politicians too rarely make the headlines in political coverage and when they do they are often subject to sexism and stereotypes.

Organisations defending media freedom, freedom of expression and human rights, including the IFJ, have strongly condemned the appalling attack on…