News and Press Releases

Brandon Lee, a journalist with Northern Dispatch Weekly, was shot and injured outside his house in Tungngod, Lagawe in Ifugao province, on August 6....

As protests broke out on the streets of Hong Kong over the weekend, journalists were again the targets of police brutality. One journalist was...

Two Sri Lankan army spies were charged with serious assault on a journalist and his wife as they drove to work in January 2009. The International...

A student journalist was attacked and hit by the chancellor of State University of Makassar during the university’s 58th anniversary celebration. The...

Indonesian journalist Asnawi Luwi’s house was burned down, followed by an arson attack at the office of the Indonesian Journalists Association (PWI)...

Huang Qi, an investigative journalist and publisher of the human rights news website 64 Tianwang, was sentenced to 12 years in prison after months of...

A report from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has found that the rise of Google, Facebook and similar businesses is a threat...

Bail has been granted to two Cambodian journalists facing incitement charges, however they must remain under court supervision. The International...

A journalist was obstructed from reporting on a Sri Lankan Air Force Commander’s visit to a Buddhist monastery in Kandy on Sunday, July 21. The...

The National Democratic Alliance has introduced two labour codes that threaten journalism by abolishing the wage board and removing the Working...

Pakistan’s private broadcaster Geo News was forced off air and its channel number abruptly changed in many parts of the country during Pakistani Prime...

Mohammad Tayyab and Ali Raza, two reporters of Channel 24 News, were brutally beaten by a group of lawyers in Faisalabad, the second-largest city in...

Two reporters were arrested in Preah Sihanouk province in the south-west of Cambodia after they covered the protest of an ongoing land dispute on...

Since the outbreak of large scale demonstrations in Hong Kong in June, the IFJ has logged a string of violations against the media. The International...

UPDATED 25.07.2019 A French TV crew was charged with trespassing while covering a protest against Australian coal mining giant Adani’s Carmichael coal...

Hundreds of masked assailants dressed in white assaulted residents, protesters, journalists and a lawmaker in Yuen Long, Hong Kong, hours after an...