South Korea: Concerns over media law amendment

South Korea’s Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee of the National Assembly have introduced amendments to the Press Arbitration Act, that include...

Afghanistan: Taliban takes two female journalists off air

Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA) news anchor Khadija Amin and news presenter Shabnam Dawran were removed from their posts and taken off air by the...

Afghanistan: "We have received hundreds of requests for help"

"We had one instance of a family being threatened and told the only way they would be left in peace is if their daughter - a journalist - married the...

Philippines: Editor shot dead in Quezon City

On August 17, tabloid editor Gwenn Salamida was shot dead by a robber in her recently opened salon in Quezon City. The International Federation of...

India: Jammu and Kashmir Police assault journalists covering Muharram procession

Jammu and Kashmir police chased a group of journalists and attacked them with batons while they were covering the Muharram procession in Srinagar on...

Afghanistan: Taliban raids belie proclamations, media at heightened anxiety

Taliban militants carried out search operations in homes of at least three employees of German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) and a freelance...

Cambodia: Authorities confiscate journalists’ press card and materials

Authorities from the Meanchey district in the south-eastern part of Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, confiscated An Vichet, a freelance journalists’...

Pakistan: Journalist in ICU after attack by a political mob

Ghulam Qadir Shar, a Pakistani journalist, working for Time News and Daily Panhanji Akhbar, was attacked by a local political leader’s supporters in...

Afghanistan: Governments must help Afghanistan’s human rights defenders

UPDATED 17.08.21 After a week of steady gains by Taliban militants, who captured dozens of cities across Afghanistan in a lightning offensive, the...

Philippines: Cyber-libel charges against Maria Ressa dismissed

A global coalition supporting Filipino journalist Maria Ressa has welcomed the dismissal of cyber-libel charges against the Rappler CEO and founder....

Pakistan: Proposed media regulatory authority rejected by Pakistani media

A coalition of Pakistani media stakeholders and leaders is calling for the rejection of the proposed Pakistan Media Regularity Authority (PMDA) which...

Pakistan: Unknown killers murder journalist

Pakistani journalist, Kashif Hussain, was killed in Wanike Tarrar, a small town in the District of Hafizabad. The International Federation of...

China/Australia: Media calls on China to release Australian journalist Cheng Lei

One year on from her detainment by Chinese authorities on “suspicion of illegally supplying state secrets overseas”, a journalist and media collective...

Afghanistan: IFJ launches international solidarity campaign as Taliban violence threatens journalists

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today launched an international solidarity campaign with Afghan journalists as the threat of...

Pakistan: Two Pakistani journalists arrested under the cybercrime act

Two Lahore-based journalists, Amir Mir and Imran Shafqat, were booked under the cybercrime act by the Pakistani Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)....

India: Former police constable allegedly stabs Andhra Pradesh journalist to death

Chennakeshavalu, a reporter who worked for local television news channel EV5, was killed in Nandyal, a city in the southeastern state of Andhra...

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