News and Press Releases

The charges against journalist Hopewell Chin’ono exposed the increasing harassment of media workers by the Zimbabwean government during the Covid-19...

Iranian journalist Vida Rabbani was arrested by security forces on 22 November and remains in detention, reportedly over tweets over the nationwide...

On Sunday, two journalists working for Sunday World newspaper in Northern Ireland were intimidated by loyalist paramilitary groups, including through...

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...

On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and girls on 25 November, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and...

As the vote on the first reading of the "Global Security" law achieved a majority in the French National Assembly on Tuesday 24 November, the...

The Hong Kong High Court granted a judicial review application regarding police operations during the 2019 protests, describing the current police...

Eleven years on from the Ampatuan Massacre, the world’s deadliest attack against journalists, impunity for crimes against journalists continues in the...

Nirmala Maulana, who works for a national online media Kompas.com, was assaulted by members of the military when covering the removal banners of Islam...

Taiwan’s media regulator announced on November 18 it would not renew the broadcast licence of Chung T’ien Television (CTiTV) over disinformation...

The Solomon Islands’ government is considering a ban on social media platform Facebook, citing deterioration in civic behaviour and access to harmful...

A TV journalist and his interviewee have been sentenced to two years in prison for spreading false news that claimed that five members of an Emirati...

Ronnie Villamor, a freelance journalist in Masbate province, was shot dead by soldiers in Milagros, on the island of Masbate, on November 14 in an...

Prominent columnist Ishaq Ahmed Fadlallah was arrested on 12 November after writing an article criticizing the practices of a member of the...

As part of its 2020 campaign to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has sent on 17 November...

Parag Bhuyan, a senior journalist and vice president of Tinsukia District Journalists’ Association (TDJA), was fatally injured in a road accident on...