News and Press Releases

BBC Persian news presenter Negin Shiraghaei today urged the United Nations Human Rights Council to help end the persecution of journalists and their...

The European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee will vote tomorrow on a landmark Directive that could have positive effects on journalists’ authors’...

La journaliste belgo-algérienne, Layla Lefèvre-Haddad, a été agressée physiquement à Bruxelles après avoir critiqué le gouvernement algérien. La FIJ,...

The IFJ is to call on the UN Human Rights Council to act to end the continued persecution of BBC journalists by Iran.

Public Debate on Media Crackdown in Belarus: violations of rights of journalists and Government control on the Media

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...

UPDATE 18 June 2018 Stefan Cvetković, the Serbian journalists reported missing on the night between 13-14 of June, has been found unhurt by the local...

Prominent journalist Shujaat Bukhari, the editor of Rising Kashmir daily, was shot dead outside his newspaper office in Srinagar, India on June 14,...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned attacks on media workers and the arrest of two foreign journalists by Palestinian...

State-owned Nepal Television shut down a long-running talk show on June 12, allegedly on the direction of Minister for Communication and Information...

Indonesian journalist, Muhammad Yusuf died on June 10, 2018 in police custody in the South Kalimantan Class II B Kotabaru detention centre. The...

La Federación Internacional de Periodistas (FIP), organización que representa a 600.000 comunicadores y comunicadoras en el mundo, celebra el fallo...

Unknown assailants shot dead writer, blogger and publisher Shahjahan Bachchu in Munshiganj district in central Bangladesh on June 11, 2018. In...

On Saturday, June 9, veteran journalist and media pioneer, Jonas Cullwick, passed away in Port Vila, Vanuatu. The International Federation of...

Yemeni journalist Anwar Al-Rakan died on 8 June just two days after his release from a Houthi prison, amid claims he had been tortured.