News and Press Releases

Media in the Philippines has come under attack this week, both online and offline, raising serious concerns about the safety and security of the...

Ahead of presidential elections in the Maldives on September 23, allegations have emerged of foreign journalists been denied visas to cover the...

Yesterday, Malaysia’s Dewan Negara (the Senate of Parliament) rejected the Anti Fake News (Abolition) Bill 2018, a decision which has been labelled a...

Nepal police arrested the editor of a weekly newspaper from his home in Lalitpur on alleged cybercrime charges over a published news report.

A woman television journalist was hacked to death at the door of her home in Pabna of Rajshahi division, Bangladesh on August 28. The International...

The key suspect in the massacre of Maguindanao in 2009, the former governor Zaldy Ampatuan who is currently in prison, received permission to attend...

Critical media houses and independent journalists in India are facing growing pressure and harassment from ruling authorities and their supporters at...

Nepal’s new Criminal Codes Act 2018 curtails freedom of expression and the press. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliates...

Voice of America journalist, Yibing Feng, and media worker, Allen Ai were detained for six hours on Monday, August 13 in Jinan, Shandong province as...

Television journalist Kishorchandra Wangkhem was arrested and charged with inciting public mischief through a series of Facebook posts, in Imphal,...