News and Press Releases

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...

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...

El 23 de septiembre el fotoperiodista Dieu-Nalio Chery recibió un tiro por parte del senador Jean Mary Ralph Féthière, quien realizó disparos cerca de...

It is with great sadness that the IFJ has learnt the passing away of Rainer Raichert, member of the German union DJV and a strong supporter of trade...

The Global Times, a Chinese state-run media outlet published a report yesterday about a smear campaign against the IFJ’s Hong Kong affiliate, the Hong...

There is now clear evidence that hundreds of thousands of social media accounts are being used to spread disinformation about Hong Kong’s ongoing...