News and Press Releases

Indian news portal Newsclick was the target of a five-day raid by the Department of Revenue of India from February 9 to 14 over allegations of...

Social media giant Facebook has restricted all Australian news media organisations from posting content to the platform from February 18, blocking all...

A clampdown on communications in Myanmar has seen at least five journalists arrested and official warnings sent to media threatening harsh jail...

An Afghan journalist affiliated with the Pajhwok News Agency has survived an assassination attempt by armed assailants in Faryab province on February...

Four media workers’ unions in Japan have demanded gender equality in Japan’s media and call for stronger female representation in the industry, which...

At least nine journalists have been targeted by police by arrests, intimidation and criminal charges over reporting and online posts about the ongoing...

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was banned in China on February 12, one week after it was accused of false reporting and after 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...

Following the decision by the Chinese authorities to ban BBC World News from broadcasting in China, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)...

Incidents of violence and restrictions towards journalists and media workers covering protests in Myanmar have been documented, as hundreds of...

Bangladesh police this week formally charged three journalists under the Digital Security Act (DSA) for publishing material alleged to have the...

On February 7, the Hong Kong Police Force arrested Wan Yiu-sing, an online radio host for channel D100, on suspicion of sedition. The International...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the global labour movement in raising a racket to support Myanmar's trade unionists taking to...

Australian news presenter Cheng Lei, who has been detained by China’s authorities since August 2020, was officially arrested on February 5 for...

Cambodian media bodies have expressed deep concern over a new directive from Cambodian police that bans journalists from filming, recording and...