News and Press Releases

Photojournalist Barsha Shah was arrested and detained for three hours for taking pictures of a protest outside the President’s Office at the Shital...

Unidentified armed men abducted Engineer Zalmay, director and owner of the Enikass radio and television stations, after killing his driver on December...

Noor ul Hassan from Royal News TV was killed and cameraman Sabir was injured on December 3, 2018 in Peshawar of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province,...

Today marks nine years since the single deadliest attack on journalists. On November 23, 2009, 32 journalists were among 58 people brutally massacred...

The IFJ welcomes the signing of a collective agreement on the safety of journalists between the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) and the...

Sri Lanka’s government has transferred police inspector Nishantha Silva, who was investigating several major investigations into attacks on...

IFJ leaders came under a tear gas attack today after Israeli soldiers fired on a peaceful assembly demanding the right to freedom of movement for...

A dozen cadres of ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) attacked journalist Lokendra Khanal of Nagarik daily in Rukum distrist in west Nepal on November...

In South East Asia, one in two journalists have felt insecure because of their work, in the past year. Today, on International Day to End Impunity for...

Journalists groups, editors, media owners and press freedom campaigners will join forces on 2 November to demand urgent action by the United Nations...

In less than 24 hours, two journalists have been killed in attacks in Chhattisgargh and Jharkhand, India. The International Federation of Journalists...

Number of journalists killed since 1994: 89. Prosecutions: 4. 53 journalists killed in last 5 years, on average 10 journalists a year. Most...

On 16th October 2017, Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered in a car bomb attack in the town of Bidnija, near her...

Durante el 2018 la lista de periodistas asesinados en México ha alcanzado un número de 8 muertes, que se suman al centenar de casos que ocurren desde...

As a consequence of the fighting between the Houthis, the Yemeni government forces supported by the Saudi led-coalition and al-Qaida, 35 journalists...