News and Press Releases

Several journalists were assaulted while covering the court appearance of the Chief of Defense Staff Ravindra Wijegunaratne at the Fort Magistrate’s…

La Fédération internationale des journalistes (FIJ) et ses affiliés, l'Union nationale de la presse du Congo (UNPC) et le Syndicat national des…

Un periodista fue baleado en la puerta de su casa la noche del 23 de noviembre en Veracruz, cuando llegaba a su hogar. La Federación Internacional de…

Este 24 de noviembre se cumplen 30 años del asesinato del periodista Hugo Bustíos Saavedra, quien fue asesinado en 1988 mientras realizaba el…

Today marks nine years since the single deadliest attack on journalists. On November 23, 2009, 32 journalists were among 58 people brutally massacred…

The Executive Committee of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has repeated its strong condemnation of the gruesome murder of Saudi…

The IFJ welcomes the signing of a collective agreement on the safety of journalists between the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) and the…

Sri Lanka’s government has transferred police inspector Nishantha Silva, who was investigating several major investigations into attacks on…

The Chinese Government’s online crackdown has continued with the shutdown of thousands of social media accounts. The International Federation of…

Zou Guangxiang and Liu Chengkun were sentenced to one year and eight months in jail respectively for defamation and causing a disturbance in Inner…

During the APEC Summit that was held in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea between November 12 to 18, 2018 accredited non-Chinese media were barred from…

IFJ leaders came under a tear gas attack today after Israeli soldiers fired on a peaceful assembly demanding the right to freedom of movement for…

Al-Aqsa, a television station in Gaza linked to Hamas, was destroyed on Monday 12 November after a series of targeted airstrikes by Israeli forces.The…

Nepal government withheld the decisions of the meeting of the Council of Ministers from the media on November 11. The International Federation of…

Following the dismissal of Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s (ABC) managing director and the resignation of the chairman in September 2018,…

A dozen cadres of ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) attacked journalist Lokendra Khanal of Nagarik daily in Rukum distrist in west Nepal on November…