News and Press Releases

A series of assaults against local journalists has occurred in different cities in the country, ranging from verbal attacks to physical assault. The…

More than 150 Pakistani women journalists released a statement on September 7 detailing the gender-based attacks that are increasingly impacting their…

On 2 September, indigenous journalist Karl Dockstader was arrested and charged with criminal mischief after covering a Caledonia land dispute during…

An extraordinary general meeting of journalists in the Maldives elected a revived Maldives Journalist Association (MJA) executive committee on…

China correspondents for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and the Australian Financial Review returned to Sydney on September 8 after…

Police arrested Somali radio journalists Khadar Awl Ismail and Abdiqani Ahmed Mohamed on 6 September for reporting the rape and murder of a woman. The…

Cambodian authorities have prepared a decree allowing for the regulation of all web traffic to be routed through a ‘national internet gateway’ in an…

A court in Teheran sentenced journalist Mohammad Mosaed to four years and nine months in prison and banned him from any journalistic activity for two…

Journalist Shaheena Shaheen was shot dead in her home on September 5 in Turbat, Kech in a suspected domestic violence offence. The International…

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has received a report that Shaheena Shaheen, a Baloch based female journalist, was shot dead in…

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…

Jan Kuciak has been murdered again. Thursday’s verdict in the trial of the killers of Jan Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová is like a new death…

Journalists Ahmad Noorani and Gul Bukhari have received death threats for publishing a news report that is accused of being ‘fake’. The International…

A crowd stormed and burned down Iraqi broadcaster Dijlah TV's headquarters in Baghdad on September 1, as protesters accused the station of…

Egyptian prosecutors have brought additional charges against two journalists who have been in pretrial detention since autumn 2019. The International…