News and Press Releases

Journalist Bahroz Jaafer was arrested on 22 September after Iraqi president Barham Salih filed a defamation lawsuit against him. The International...

Le journaliste marocain d'investigation Omar Radi a comparu le 22 septembre devant le juge d'instruction à Casablanca pour trois chefs d'accusation,...

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

We, the undersigned affiliate members of the International Federation of Journalists, welcome the decision of the United Nations Educational,...

Under a new policy, Hong Kong’s police will cease to recognise press accreditation issued by local media or journalist associations unless they are...

In a joint statement, the Council of Global Unions (CGU) welcomed the adoption by the European Parliament (EP) of the “resolution on the situation in...

In 3 May 1972, Daniel Ellsberg spoke at a peace rally in Washington DC. It was a year since he had leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times...

On September 17, 2000, a well-known Ukrainian journalist and founder of popular Ukrainian online newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda, Georgiy Gongadze, was...

Francis Allan L. Angelo, editor-in-chief of the Daily Guardian newspaper based in Iloilo, Western Visayas region, was threaten by Plaridel Nava, a...

Lao blogger Houayheuang Xayabouly, known by her nickname Mouay, was detained in 2019 for criticising the region’s government for the mishandling of...

Journalist Jobert “Polpog” Bercasio was shot dead as he was riding a scooter in Sorgoson City, Sorgoson, Luzon on the evening of September 14. The...

La Cour d'appel d'Alger a condamné ce 15 septembre le journaliste Khaled Drareni à deux ans de prison ferme pour avoir couvert les manifestations...

The South Sulawesi water and police unit have arrested three student journalists in Makassar while they were covering a protest to reject sand mining...

Liputan6.com journalist Cakrayuni Nuralam has been targeted by doxing attacks following an article in which the newsroom tried to verify connections...

On September 9, security forces arrested journalist Islam Al-Kalhi while he was covering the al-Moneeb protests sparked by the killing of a young man...