News and Press Releases

Ali Imran Syed, a reporter for Geo News, was reported missing in Karachi on October 23 after a suspected abduction. He was found safe after 22 hours.…

Eight media workers were roughed up, assaulted or detained by the police on 24 October in the Angolan capital Luanda while covering a demonstration…

Security forces attacked journalists and prevented them from covering protests in Sudan’s capital Khartoum on 21 October. The International Federation…

Pakistani authorities suspended satellite transmission of television channel News24HD from October 19 after it allegedly aired an opposition party…

Pakistani authorities suspended satellite transmission of television channel News24HD from October 19 after it allegedly aired an opposition party…

Planned changes to the way the US issue visas for journalists threaten to “seriously jeopardise the exercise of journalistic freedom” the…

Mohammed Baayou, the head of Libya’s state-owned Media Corporation, was arrested on 20 October in Tripoli. The International Federation of Journalists…

Unidentified individuals attacked and torched the premises of Television Continental (TVC) and other media houses in Lagos on 21 October, resulting in…

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joined forces with the International Press Institute (IPI) to issue a joint call on the Indian…

On Sunday, 18 October, Kosovo journalist Shkumbin Kajtazi announced via a Facebook post that he had found his car damaged by several bullets that…

Foreign journalists travelling to the Netherlands will be exempt from a travel ban and be able to leave quarantine to carry out vital newsgathering…

Police have arrested Prachatai journalist Kitti Pantapak as he recorded live coverage of the police crackdown on protestors in Bangkok on October 16.…

The Malaysian Parliament, in a decision attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic, has opted to limit press coverage of the upcoming parliamentary session…

Hong Kong’s national security police officers raided the private offices of pro-democracy activist and media tycoon Jimmy Lai, on October 15. The…

On 15 October, the Houthi rebels in Yemeni capital city Sana'a released five journalists as part of a prisoner exchange with the internationally…

On 16 October 2017, journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was assassinated in Malta. Three years later we, the undersigned 19 international free…