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Tamer Almisshal, Al Jazeera Arabic presenter had his Facebook profile taken down following the airing of his TV Show ‘Tip of the Iceberg’ on 8…

In a letter addressed to Yemeni President Mr Rashad Al ALIMI and Prime Minister Mr Maeenn Abdulmalik Saeed, on 5 September 2023, the IFJ has joined…

On August 24, director and owner of the radio station Voice of Yemen, Mujalli As-Samadi, was brutally assaulted in front of his house in Al-Safia area…

UPDATED 30.08.23 and 21.09.23 It will be a week on 29 August since the father of well-known Egyptian journalist Ahmed Gamal Ziada was arrested by…

On August 23, a suspected drone attack near Qamishli city, in the de facto Autonomous Administration of North East Syria ruled by the Syrian…

Journalists at the BBC’s Cairo bureau have started a ten-day strike in a dispute about pay. It follows a one-day strike in June and a three-day strike…

Journalist Ahmed Hassan Al-Zoubi, sentenced to one year in jail on August 9, and journalist Hiba Abu Taha, arrested on August 8, are being prosecuted…

Twenty-eight women journalists successfully completed two safety training sessions in Ramallah from August 1 to 3, and Gaza from August 6 to 9. The…

UPDATED 10.08.2023 A reporter from the privately owned Sama TV, Firas al-Ahmad, was killed on August 9 when a roadside bomb exploded in al-Shiah…

On August 2, an armed man driving an ambulance in the northern occupied West Bank bearing the emblem of the national Israeli ambulance service, the…

Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi, two women journalists who were among the first to report about Mahsa Amini’s death, stood for the final round of…

La cour de Cassation marocaine a rejeté le 18 juillet le pourvoi des journalistes Omar Radi et Soulaimane Raissouni, confirmant leur condamnation en…

UPDATED 17.07.2023. Palestinian security forces arrested local journalist Aqil Awawdeh in Ramallah on 13 July in connection with social media posts…

Forty cases of media and journalists’ rights violations have been registered during the first half of 2023, according to a new report published by the…

We, Global Unions representing hundreds of millions of workers around the world across most sectors, call for the United Nations (UN), its member…

Several journalists have been directly targeted by Israeli snipers as they were reporting on Israel's large-scale military operation in Jenin,…