Hong Kong: Support for Next Digital employees as media group files for liquidation

Hong Kong media group, Next Digital, known for its popular pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily and owned by jailed media magnate Jimmy Lai, filed for...

Afghanistan: Local media raise concerns of journalist safety with Taliban officials

Local media groups left in Afghanistan met with Taliban leaders on September 3 to address concerns around journalist safety. The International...

Afghanistan: Journalist leader Fahim Dashti killed in Taliban attack in Panjshir Valley

Fahim Dashti, a veteran leader of the Afghanistan National Journalist Union (ANJU), was killed in Panjshir province on September 5 during a clash...

South Asia: SAMSN members appeal to SAARC countries to provide asylum for Afghan Journalists

Concerns for the state of press freedom and freedom of expression in Afghanistan are escalating following the Taliban militant’s takeover, as mounting...

Philippines: One year since the forced closure of 53 regional ABS-CBN stations

On August 28, journalists in the Philippines commemorated one year since ABS-CBN was forced to close 53 regional radio and television stations. The...

Hong Kong: Government proposes new censorship law and clamps down on media independence

A week after Hong Kong’s public broadcaster, Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK), published the new partnership with the Chinese Media Group, Hong...

Afghanistan: The end of the US mission, but what now for Afghanistan’s media?

As the last US military forces departed Afghanistan and Taliban leaders celebrated ‘complete independence’ with rifle rounds in the air on August 30,...

Afghanistan: "I don't know what awaits me in the future"

Farida Nekzad is the managing editor of Pajhwok Afghan News, Afghanistan’s largest independent news agency, a 2008 winner of the prestigious...

Afghanistan: Taliban releases two Pakistani journalists, one remains missing

Khyber TV reporter Abdul Mateen Achakzai and cameraperson Muhammad Ali were arrested while reporting in Kandahar city in southern Afghanistan on...

Afghanistan: Two journalists among the casualties at Kabul airport

Afghan journalist Ali Reza Ahmadi, who was reporting from the chaotic scenes at Kabul airport, was among those killed in the deadly bombing outside...

Afghanistan: "There is a sense of anger that so many journalists are being abandoned"

As US troops prepare to leave Afghanistan on 31 August, the IFJ and its affiliates continue to help journalists and their families out of the country...

Afghanistan: Chaos and fear as deadline looms, countries end evacuation efforts

Despite ever growing requests for emergency evacuation from media workers in Afghanistan, a bomb blast at Kabul airport on August 26 has ended vital...

China: Concerns over journalist’s health on hunger strike

There are rising concerns about Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan’s physical condition as her long-running hunger strike to protest her lack of guilt...

Cambodia: Concerns rise over governments establishment of National Human Rights Institution

The Royal Government of Cambodia is moving towards the establishment of a National Human Rights Institution (NHRI) after the Cambodian Human Rights...

Sri Lanka: Journalist ordered to 90-day detention for alleged intelligence breach

Keerthi Ratnayake, a journalist affiliated with Lanka e News, was arrested on August 14 by Sri Lanka’s government and accused of providing...

Pakistan: Underpayment and sacking of journalists on the rise

Recent studies by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) indicate large-scale forced dismissals of journalists from Pakistani media houses...

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