News and Press Releases

UPDATE 27.04.2020 Iraq’s Communications and Media Commission (CMC) has fined and banned Reuters news agency from operating following a report on the...

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...

Serbian Prime Minister, Ana Brnabic, withdrew a planned decree that would have limited the publishing of information related to COVID-19 just to...

Italian journalists are on the front lines in the emergency that has hit the country. Federazione Nazionale Stampa Italiana (FSNI) is working to...

Sajid Hussain, a Pakistani journalist granted political asylum in Sweden in 2017, is reported as missing. The International Federation of Journalists...

Ko Nay Myo Lin, the editor-in-chief of Voice of Myanmar (VOM), was arrested on March 30 for breaching the Counter Terrorism Law after publishing an...

The Iranian State Board for Fighting Corona Disease (SBFCD) passed a nationwide ban on all print publications on 30 March. The International...

UPDATE 5/05/2020 Sajid Hussain, a Pakistani journalist who was granted political asylum in Sweden in 2017, has gone missing. The International...

L’accès à l’Information pour la sensibilisation des populations reste le seul moyen le plus sûr pour lutter efficacement contre les pandémies qui...

The South East Asia Journalists Unions (SEAJU) network remains concerned for the physical and financial safety of journalists reporting in South East...

La fundadora del portal Quinto Poder, María Elena Ferral Martínez, fue baleada en la vía pública y murió en el hospital. Desde el Sindicato Nacional...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today joined other press freedom groups in calling on Europe’s top human rights and democracy...

The Hungarian Parliament passed a bill on 30 March allowing the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to rule by decree without a set time limit....

On March 25, 2020, at about 16:30, Siarhei Satsuk, member of the Belarusian Association of Journalists, journalist and editor-in-chief of the online...

Sixteen human rigths and professional organisations urged Turkish Government not to discriminate against political prisoners in its forthcoming early...

The president of Romania Klaus Werner Iohannis signed on 16 March an emergency decree which, among other measures, allows the National Authority for...