News and Press Releases

As Nauru prepares to host the Pacific Island Forum in September, it announced on Monday, July 2, that it would block the Australian Broadcasting…

After more than a two and a half year investigation, a Ming Pao Daily journalist was told that his complaint of assault against several Hong Kong…

The offices of Modus an Indonesian tabloid newspaper, based in Aceh in western Indonesia were attacked by a Molotov cocktail on Saturday, June 30,…

La Federación Internacional de Periodistas (FIP) se une su afiliado mexicano, el Sindicato Nacional de Redactores de la Prensa (SNRP), en condenar el…

A man killed five workers at the Annapolis Capital Gazette newspaper office in Maryland, USA on 28 June. The IFJ joins its US affiliates in denouncing…

Journalists, union leaders and media rights organizations under the umbrella of the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN), the South East Asian…

Sandya Eknaligoda, wife of missing Sri Lankan journalist Prageeth Eknaligoda, has received continuous death threats and abuses through social media…

The ‘Yabuli Youth Forum 2018: Innovation Annual Meeting’ held in Hong Kong on June 22 and 23, imposed outlandish restrictions on media, invited to…

A journalist was brutally assaulted by the Gambian police while covering a story on 18 June.

Following months of debates and controversial discussions, the European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) adopted today its position on a…

BBC Persian news presenter Negin Shiraghaei today urged the United Nations Human Rights Council to help end the persecution of journalists and their…

La Commission des affaires juridiques du Parlement Européen votera demain une directive historique qui pourrait avoir des effets positifs sur les…

La journaliste belgo-algérienne, Layla Lefèvre-Haddad, a été agressée physiquement à Bruxelles après avoir critiqué le gouvernement algérien. La FIJ,…

The IFJ is to call on the UN Human Rights Council to act to end the continued persecution of BBC journalists by Iran.

Prominent journalist Shujaat Bukhari, the editor of Rising Kashmir daily, was shot dead outside his newspaper office in Srinagar, India on June 14,…

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned attacks on media workers and the arrest of two foreign journalists by Palestinian…