Mozambique: Journalist illegally detained and incommunicado (UPDATED)

Amade Abubakar, a Mozambican journalist working for the state –owned radio and television Communitaria Nacedje de Macomia Cabo Delgado has been...

Hong Kong-based grassroots news website blocked in China

The website of a Hong Kong grassroots news organisation, reporting labour issues around the globe, has been blocked in mainland. The International...

Government advertising withheld from Kashmir newspapers

For the past two weeks, the governor’s administration of Jammu and Kashmir has not given any government advertisements to Greater Kashmir and Kashmir...

IFJ in the news

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...

Tanzania: Government suspends Citizen Newspaper for seven days

The Government of Tanzania has suspended the Citizen, a privately-owned daily newspaper, for seven days claiming that it “deliberately published...

IFJ Asia Pacific Bulletin: MARCH

Myanmar: Journalists attacked following critical mining report

Journalists Moon Moon Pan and Ah Je were detained and assaulted by employees of a mining company in Waingmaw in Kachin in Myanmar on February 26. The...

HKJA launches petition in response to Access to Information consultations

Following the launch of the public consultation by the Law Reform Commission (LRC) of Hong Kong into access to information legislation, the Hong Kong...

Zimbabwe: IFJ and FAJ condemn repressive measures against trade unions

The Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), the African Regional Organisation of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), is shocked by the...

Philippines: Journalist and family named on hit list

Philippine journalist Cong Corrales and his family’s names were included on an anonymous list allegedly naming members of the Philippines Communist...

Several journalists attacked at Jakarta rally

A number of journalists covering the Islamist gather ‘212 Munajat Night’ in Jakarta on February 21 were attacked by members of the Islamic Defender...

Yemen: 10 illegally held journalists face special terror court

10 Yemeni journalists abducted by Ansar Allah (Houthis) since June 2015 have been sent to face a specialised terrorism court.

Journalist attacked by police in Jaffna, Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan journalist Nadarajah Kugarajah was attacked by police in Jaffna on February 20, 2019. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)...

Libel cases threatening newsrooms in the Philippines

After the arrest of Rappler CEO Maria Ressa over cyber libel, the Philstar.com decided to delete an article from 2002 over anticipated libel cases....

IFJ affiliates condemn Maria Ressa arrest

IFJ affiliates in Asia-Pacific responded to the arrest of Maria Ressa in the Philippines. In statements from across the region they have met with...

Anonymous lists put journalists’ lives in danger in the Philippines

Several journalists have been named on an anonymous list of purported drug personalities in two cities in the Philippines, raising serious concerns...

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