News and Press Releases

Several media offices were attacked and stormed by masked armed men in Baghdad on Saturday 5 October in the evening amid the violent protests in Iraq....

Nepali journalist and union leader Ajaya Babu Shiwakoti has been the subject of a campaign of threats and surveillance since the publishing of an...

In another dire week for media in Hong Kong, one journalist was seriously injured by a projectile fired from a police shotgun and others were...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has deferred a verdict in the espionage trial of two former Radio Free Asia (RFA) journalists and controversially...

On October 2, 2018, at 1:14 PM, the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. He never came out alive.

Multiple media violations against journalists were recorded during the fourth round of Afghanistan’s presidential elections on Saturday, September 28....

Journalists covering student protests in cities across Indonesia were attacked by police in a series of brutal incidents on September 24. The...

Dandhy Dwi Laksono, a journalist filmmaker for WatchDoc, was arrested on September 26 and charged under Indonesia’s controversial Information and...

Abdul Hamid Hotaki, a political talk show host at Hewad independent public media group, was critically injured in an explosion near the campaign...

Online and broadcast journalists in the Philippines will have greater ability to protect their sources following an expansion of the country’s...

El 23 de septiembre el fotoperiodista Dieu-Nalio Chery recibió un tiro por parte del senador Jean Mary Ralph Féthière, quien realizó disparos cerca de...

The Global Times, a Chinese state-run media outlet published a report yesterday about a smear campaign against the IFJ’s Hong Kong affiliate, the Hong...

Along with 21 other organisations, the IFJ signed an open letter sent to the new Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Marija Pejčinović Burić,...

Journalists covering the demonstration in front of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in Jakarta, on Friday, September 13, were harassed,...

A website was recently found to have purported to post personal information of journalists in Hong Kong. The International Federation of Journalists...

The offices of Abante Tonite, a leading Philippines tabloid were stormed by four men and set alight in an arson attack on Monday, September 9 in...