News and Press Releases

Ethiopian freelance journalist Lucy Kassa was attacked at her home in Addis Ababa on 8 February by three unidentified armed men in plain clothes who...

Incidents of violence and restrictions towards journalists and media workers covering protests in Myanmar have been documented, as hundreds of...

Bangladesh police this week formally charged three journalists under the Digital Security Act (DSA) for publishing material alleged to have the...

The Colombian Federation of Journalists (FECOLPER) has exposed a sharply worsening human rights situation for journalists, a crisis exacerbated by the...

El periodista Edgar Leyva Mendoza, director del medio informativo Urbano 24 horas de Veracruz, fue víctima entre el 3 y el 10 de febrero de dos...

State-TV journalist Hala Al-Jarf was detained on January 23 in the centre-west city of Salamaniyah, accused of “spreading disinformation and...

On February 7, the Hong Kong Police Force arrested Wan Yiu-sing, an online radio host for channel D100, on suspicion of sedition. The International...

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...

Media unions and journalist organisations across the Asia-Pacific region have issued a joint statement of solidarity with their journalist colleagues...

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...