News and Press Releases

Cambodian television journalist, Kuy Piseth from news portal News English (CNE), died in Phnom Penh in the early hours of September 29. The…

The National Federation of Journalists (FENAJ) is proposing a new tax on digital platforms and the creation of a Fund to Support and Promote…

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins international calls on the government of Indonesia to repeal the Omnibus Law on Job Creation,…

Derana TV journalist Indunil Wijenayake was attacked by sand-miners in the Kumbukkan Oya area of Monaragala district on October 3 while reporting on…

Russian news editor Irina Slavina has died after setting herself on fire in front of an interior ministry office in Nizhniy Novgorod (Russia) on…

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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…

Julian Assange's extradition hearing took its last evidence at the Old Bailey, London yesterday. Closing submissions will be made in writing and Judge…

The National Union of Journalists has condemned the targeting of NUJ members and chapel reps at London-based broadcaster Iran International in a…

The government in Karnataka has shutdown Power TV, a private broadcaster, in retaliation for the broadcaster’s reports on corruption allegations…

UPDATED 1 OCTOBER Three journalists from the Azerbaijan Public Television ITV who were reporting from the Azerbaijani-Armenian frontline have been…

Four local online news journalists were attacked on September 28 in the Tbong Khmum province after reporting on forestry crimes in the district. The…

Journalist Bahroz Jaafer was arrested on 22 September after Iraqi president Barham Salih filed a defamation lawsuit against him. The International…

Kamal Shukla, the editor of Bhumkal Samachar magazine and head of the Patrakar Suraksha Kanoon Sanyukt Sangharsh Samiti, an organisation to protect…

Turkish journalist Abdullah Bozkurt, who is exiled in Sweden, was attacked near his home in Stockholm by three men on 24 September. The International…

“A big TV cannon comes over to me and tells me that if I do not suck his cock, then he will ruin my career. I said no.” It is the 26th of August, TV…

Pakistani journalist Abid Hussain Abidi, affiliated with local newspaper Jurm-o- Saza, was shot dead in Mandi Bahaudin in the Malikwal district on…