News and Press Releases

A BBC journalist in Northern Ireland received threats for working on a documentary about alleged connections between Irish mob’s leader, Daniel…

The Director of the weekly satirical newspaper, Raymond Malonga, aged 60, was arrested on 2 February on libel charges following the publication of an…

A few days before the trial of journalists Catarina Andreeva and Darja Chulcova, on 9 February, the Belarussian Association of Journalists (BAJ) calls…

IFJ in the news

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…

Al-Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein has been released on 5 February after spending four years in prison on allegations of spreading “false news”.…

Au nom de la liberté d'expression et afin de garantir la future protection de Julian Assange, fondateur et ancien rédacteur en chef de Wikileaks, la…

On Wednesday 3 February, Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court sentenced Mediazona editor-in-chief Sergey Smirnov to 25 days administrative arrest for…

Les Fédérations internationale et européenne des journalistes (FIJ-FEJ) condamnent le refus de l'avocate générale de la cour d'appel de Metz de…

At least 120 cases of detention, obstruction and violence against journalists have been recorded on 31 January as a result of media coverage of…

Syrian television cameraman Tamir Al Hammad was assaulted during an attempted kidnap by personnel from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on January…

The IFJ and FAJ will now have the possibility to post alerts on this Platform to denounce an attack on a journalist, a violation of the right to…

La Federación de Trabajadores de las Comunicaciones, la Gráfica y Servicios Conexos -FETRACOSE-, denunció esta mañana el despido de casi 200…

IFJ in the news

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…

La direction de l'hebdomadaire français Valeurs Actuelles et le Syndicat français des éditeurs de la presse magazine (SEPM) ont lancé des poursuites…

Le photojournaliste Islam Al-Hakiri, arrêté le 25 janvier à Tunis alors qu'il remplissait sa mission d'informer, a vu sa peine de prison confirmée par…

Four Syrian journalists’ professional groups, including IFJ affiliate, the Syrian Journalists Association (SJA) launched a campaign on January 25 to…