News and Press Releases

Reporter Hamdi Atef Abdel Fattah and online news editor Ahmed Khalifa went missing after being arrested between 4 and 6 January on charges of...

A Gujarat court has issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against senior Indian journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta following the filing of a defamation...

A new tax on some digital services in Spain - dubbed the Google Tax - is expected to generate huge revenues this year which journalists unions say...

The recent approval of a number of Covid-19 vaccines all over the world has meant thousands of journalists are having to report on vaccines and...

Five men have been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of journalist Humayun Kabir Balu, sixteen years after he was killed in a targeted...

There were more than 600 violations of media and journalists’ rights during 2020 in Palestine, according to the latest report from the Palestine...

In the first 15 days of 2021, the Turkish Journalists Union (TGS) has already recorded five physical attacks against journalists in Turkey. The...

A mob of nearly a dozen people led by the imam of a local mosque attacked Zohra Radio in north eastern Kunduz province on January 15 damaging the...

A journalist, persecuted on fabricated charges, was arrested on 17 January as he fled Iran to escape a jail sentence, and now fears being handed over...

Malaysia’s national journalism union has requested cooperation from Malaysia’s government as well as media and non-media workers in addressing...

Criminal prosecutions of journalists are increasing in Belarus. Journalby editor Andrei Alexandrov was arrested on 12 January. Eight other journalists...

Una jueza española condenó a la revista CTXT a indemnizar a un personaje público y a silenciar sus informaciones sobre el mismo tras publicar una...

Journalists at sports newspaper ‘L’Equipe’ and France TV channels have taken strike action in a dispute over a job protection plan and dismissals. The...

Turkish Cypriot journalist and publisher Sener Levent is the target of a harassment campaign by the Turkish authorities for his critical reporting on...

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

Former Chinese journalist and renowned critic of internet censorship Zhang Jialong was sentenced to 18 months in prison on January 8 for his remarks...