News and Press Releases

Renowned journalist Hopewell Chin’ono was arrested by police on 8 January after tweeting about a video allegedly showing a police officer hitting a...

A Jordanian parliamentarian has accused media and journalists in the country of spreading misleading rumors and "poisoned ideas", amongst other...

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...

There were 138 violations of media and journalists' rights during 2020 in Iraqi Kurdistan, including arbitrary arrests and physical attacks, a new...

Three women journalists were detained and another was beaten by police on 5 January during a protest in the Turkish capital Ankara against the...

As Judge Vanessa Baraitser started to deliver her ruling in the Old Bailey’s number two court yesterday, nothing felt right.

Bismillah Adil Aimaq, an Afghan journalist and human rights activist was killed by unidentified gunmen in Dara-e-Taimoor village in Ghor province of...

Le Comité exécutif de la Fédération internationale des journalistes (FIJ), première organisation mondiale de la profession dans le monde représentant...

On 10 December, 84 journalists of the state National Authority of Radio and TV were dismissed due to alleged loyalty to the regime of former president...

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...

Veteran editor-in-chief of Iran-e-Farda magazine, Kayvan Samimi, began his three-year prison term on 8 December, after being jailed for "inflaming...

Les journalistes tunisiens ont manifesté massivement ce jeudi 26 novembre pour dénoncer la non publication par le gouvernement de la convention...

(UPDATED 4 NOVEMBER) A Harare court banned prominent lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa from defending journalist Hopewell Chin’ono, ruling she was in contempt of...

Pakistani authorities suspended satellite transmission of television channel News24HD from October 19 after it allegedly aired an opposition party...

Lawyers for the US government wrangled for days to prevent Julian Assange's extradition proceedings hearing Khaled El-Masri’s evidence. When...

Police detained four journalists in eastern Turkey on 6 October and raided their homes and offices following their reporting on allegations of Turkish...