News and Press Releases

Several journalists were attacked by a group of Sarajevo Football club fans on 27 September. The International and European Federations of Journalists...

On October 2, 2018, at 1:14 PM, the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. He never came out alive.

El Nuevo Diario, el segundo periódico más importante de Nicaragua, anunció el viernes 27 de septiembre el fin de su publicación debido a las presiones...

Multiple media violations against journalists were recorded during the fourth round of Afghanistan’s presidential elections on Saturday, September 28....

In advance of the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI) on 28 September, the IFJ has condemned the fact that 30 countries have...

The National Television and Radio broadcasting council of Ukraine, the media regulatory authority, has revoked all digital licences granted to...

Journalists covering student protests in cities across Indonesia were attacked by police in a series of brutal incidents on September 24. The...

Dandhy Dwi Laksono, a journalist filmmaker for WatchDoc, was arrested on September 26 and charged under Indonesia’s controversial Information and...

Online and broadcast journalists in the Philippines will have greater ability to protect their sources following an expansion of the country’s...

The IFJ was at the UN Human Rights Council's 42nd session in Geneva this week. Together with its affiliate the National Union of Somali Journalists...

The Chinese government is about to launch a compulsory loyalty exam that all journalists in the nation have to take before applying or renewing their...

The Global Times, a Chinese state-run media outlet published a report yesterday about a smear campaign against the IFJ’s Hong Kong affiliate, the Hong...

There is now clear evidence that hundreds of thousands of social media accounts are being used to spread disinformation about Hong Kong’s ongoing...

Authorities in Puntland, an autonomous region of Somalia, announced on 22 September that all the independent media houses and journalists operating in...

The Pakistan government has announced a plan to introduce media courts to regulate the press. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and...