News and Press Releases

On October 2, 2018, at 1:14 PM, the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. He never came out alive.

Pakistan news outlets ARY News and AAJ News have reportedly terminated the jobs of 150 journalists, justifying the mass lay-offs as part of a...

MISE A JOUR 17.10.2019 Une journaliste a été arrêtée par la police marocaine pour " relations sexuelles illicites et avortement illégal" le 31 août et...

IFJ staff and affiliates joined tens of millions of students, workers and climate activists demonstrating in defence of the planet during the week of...

El Nuevo Diario, el segundo periódico más importante de Nicaragua, anunció el viernes 27 de septiembre el fin de su publicación debido a las presiones...

The former head of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, Naim Toubassi – who played a prominent role in the campaign to free kidnapped BBC reporter...

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

The International and European Federation of Journalists (IFJ and EFJ) joined their affiliate, the Union of Bulgarian Journalists (UBJ), to express...

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...

The National Television and Radio broadcasting council of Ukraine, the media regulatory authority, has revoked all digital licences granted to...

Journalists covering student protests in cities across Indonesia were attacked by police in a series of brutal incidents on September 24. The...

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

Abdul Hamid Hotaki, a political talk show host at Hewad independent public media group, was critically injured in an explosion near the campaign...

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

The IFJ was at the UN Human Rights Council's 42nd session in Geneva this week. Together with its affiliate the National Union of Somali Journalists...