News and Press Releases

At least 73 violations of media and journalists’ rights, including arbitrary arrests, physical attacks, the closing of TV channels, and the...

Thirty-three journalists are still in detention in Iran after being arrested since the outbreak of the national protests following the death of Mahsa...

Journalist Ihsane El Kadi, founder and director of Algerian online station Radio M and the Maghreb Emergent media, was arrested on 24 December and...

Journalist and media activist Hala Fouad Badawy, who was arrested due to her reports and social media posts in December 2021, has been acquitted of...

Syrian journalist Issam Abdullah, a reporter from Hawar News Agency (ANHA), was killed while covering Turkish airstrikes on 20 November in northern...

Le journaliste de la radio Mosaïque FM, Khalifa Guesmi, a été condamné mardi 29 novembre 2022 à un an de prison par le tribunal de première instance...

Since the beginning of the World Cup 2022 in Qatar, several journalists and media workers have denounced incidents related to media freedom while...

The Regional Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa, in cooperation with the...

A DanishTV2 team was prevented from filming in a public space in Doha, Qatar’s capital, on 15 November. Security officials tried to cover the camera...

Journalist Ahmad Saeed, who exposed the alleged involvement of the authorities in smuggling citizens from the Gaza strip to Europe, was detained on...

En marge du sommet de la Ligue arabe, qui s'est tenu les 1er et 2 novembre à Alger, capitale de l'Algérie, des journalistes marocains n'ont pas été...

Manal Ajrama, deputy editor of the state-run Radio and Television Magazine and a member of the Egyptian Journalists’ Syndicate, was jailed for 15 days...

UNESCO, international organisations, press freedom groups, media and journalists' organisations have adopted a new safety roadmap for journalists. The...

The Ministry of Intelligence and the Intelligence Organisation of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have accused two female Iranian journalists who...

Twenty-one media violations have been recorded in the third quarter of 2022, according to a report published by the Yemeni Journalists Syndicate, an...

To mark the International Day to End Impunity for crimes committed against journalists on 2 November, the IFJ is calling on governments, journalists...