News and Press Releases

A nation-wide campaign countering the Australian government’s culture of secrecy launched on Australian television yesterday, continuing today with...

The Andhra Pradesh government has submitted a proposal to allow department secretaries to sue media organisations for alleged “fake news”. The...

Four townships in Myanmar’s Rakhine state have been closed off from internet access for nearly three months, blocking access to information to...

The Hong Kong government’s use of colonial era emergency regulations to prohibit face coverings in protests adds another hurdle for press freedom for...

El ayuntamiento de Madrid anunció el pasado 29 de septiembre el cierre de la radio local M21, dejando a sus trece trabajadores en una situación de...

They told you precarious work in digital media is inevitable... But it's not!

Nepali journalist and union leader Ajaya Babu Shiwakoti has been the subject of a campaign of threats and surveillance since the publishing of an...

In another dire week for media in Hong Kong, one journalist was seriously injured by a projectile fired from a police shotgun and others were...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has deferred a verdict in the espionage trial of two former Radio Free Asia (RFA) journalists and controversially...

Multiple media violations against journalists were recorded during the fourth round of Afghanistan’s presidential elections on Saturday, September 28....

In advance of the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI) on 28 September, the IFJ has condemned the fact that 30 countries have...

Dandhy Dwi Laksono, a journalist filmmaker for WatchDoc, was arrested on September 26 and charged under Indonesia’s controversial Information and...

Online and broadcast journalists in the Philippines will have greater ability to protect their sources following an expansion of the country’s...

The Chinese government is about to launch a compulsory loyalty exam that all journalists in the nation have to take before applying or renewing their...

A website was recently found to have purported to post personal information of journalists in Hong Kong. The International Federation of Journalists...

The Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC), Sri Lanka’s state-run broadcaster has been moved from the purview of the Media Ministry to the Defence...