News and Press Releases

Every week the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is compiling a list of the top news articles from across the world in which it is…

Following the decision by the Chinese authorities to ban BBC World News from broadcasting in China, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)…

Ethiopian freelance journalist Lucy Kassa was attacked at her home in Addis Ababa on 8 February by three unidentified armed men in plain clothes who…

Incidents of violence and restrictions towards journalists and media workers covering protests in Myanmar have been documented, as hundreds of…

The Colombian Federation of Journalists (FECOLPER) has exposed a sharply worsening human rights situation for journalists, a crisis exacerbated by the…

A BBC journalist in Northern Ireland received threats for working on a documentary about alleged connections between Irish mob’s leader, Daniel…

The Director of the weekly satirical newspaper, Raymond Malonga, aged 60, was arrested on 2 February on libel charges following the publication of an…

Australian news presenter Cheng Lei, who has been detained by China’s authorities since August 2020, was officially arrested on February 5 for…

A few days before the trial of journalists Catarina Andreeva and Darja Chulcova, on 9 February, the Belarussian Association of Journalists (BAJ) calls…

Every week the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is compiling a list of the top news articles from across the world in which it is…

Al-Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein has been released on 5 February after spending four years in prison on allegations of spreading “false news”.…

Au nom de la liberté d'expression et afin de garantir la future protection de Julian Assange, fondateur et ancien rédacteur en chef de Wikileaks, la…

On Wednesday 3 February, Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court sentenced Mediazona editor-in-chief Sergey Smirnov to 25 days administrative arrest for…

Les Fédérations internationale et européenne des journalistes (FIJ-FEJ) condamnent le refus de l'avocate générale de la cour d'appel de Metz de…

At least 120 cases of detention, obstruction and violence against journalists have been recorded on 31 January as a result of media coverage of…

Public broadcaster Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) terminated journalist Nabela Qoser’s three-year civil service contract, citing an ongoing…