News and Press Releases

Journalist Mohamed Mounir died on 15 July after contracting Covid-19 in jail, where he had spent a month after his arrest on 15 June. The...

After years of resisting demands to pay for news, Google said in a surprise announcement on 25 June it had reached  deals with a number of news...

Turkish authorities have told Iranian journalists Arash Yavari and his wife Masoomeh Hatamkhani, who is also a journalist, to leave the country and go...

Yemeni journalists have suffered numerous press freedom violations ranging from killings, torture and kidnapping to threats, attacks on media...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and dozens of press freedom, human rights, and privacy rights organizations across five continents...

UPDATED 3.07.2020 A news anchorwoman has been the target of a smear campaign on Facebook since 21 June. The IFJ joins its affiliate the Palestinian...

Experienced reporter and Yemeni Journalists Syndicate (YJS) board member Nabil Al Osaidi has repeatedly received phone call threats over the past few...

Egyptian journalist and human rights advocate Nora Younis was arrested on 24 June by security forces for running an unlicensed website. The IFJ calls...

IFJ affiliates around the world have taken key actions in support of media workers amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), representing over 600,000 journalists around the world, today joined calls by workers'...

"The impact of the health and economic crisis brought about by Covid-19 will without doubt have terrible consequences on both men and women...

Journalist Mohamed Mounir was detained on June 15 on charges of "spreading fake news", a widespread practice of the Egyptian government to silence...

Iranian journalists are calling on the Romanian authorities to take judicial action against judge Gholamreza Mansouri for human rights violations...

Plus de 1000 journalistes algériens n'ont pas reçu de salaire depuis un an. Le secteur de la presse en Algérie subit de plein fouet la crise...

The Kurdish Journalists Syndicate (KJS) has condemned abuses of media freedom by the government and local authorities in the midst of the COVID-19...

Unidentified gunmen assassinated photographer Nabil Hasan al-Qaiti on June 2, outside his home in a suburb of Aden city located in the south of...