News and Press Releases

Four media workers’ unions in Japan have demanded gender equality in Japan’s media and call for stronger female representation in the industry, which...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) supports the petition of its affiliates in Brazil, Peru and Uruguay for media workers to be...

Freelance producer Adel Al-Hasani has been held for more than six months after being arrested by Yemeni armed forces over his alleged support for both...

At least nine journalists have been targeted by police by arrests, intimidation and criminal charges over reporting and online posts about the ongoing...

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was banned in China on February 12, one week after it was accused of false reporting and after the...

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...

Following the decision by the Chinese authorities to ban BBC World News from broadcasting in China, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)...

Ethiopian freelance journalist Lucy Kassa was attacked at her home in Addis Ababa on 8 February by three unidentified armed men in plain clothes who...

Incidents of violence and restrictions towards journalists and media workers covering protests in Myanmar have been documented, as hundreds of...

Bangladesh police this week formally charged three journalists under the Digital Security Act (DSA) for publishing material alleged to have the...

State-TV journalist Hala Al-Jarf was detained on January 23 in the centre-west city of Salamaniyah, accused of “spreading disinformation and...

On February 7, the Hong Kong Police Force arrested Wan Yiu-sing, an online radio host for channel D100, on suspicion of sedition. The International...

A BBC journalist in Northern Ireland received threats for working on a documentary about alleged connections between Irish mob’s leader, Daniel...

The Director of the weekly satirical newspaper, Raymond Malonga, aged 60, was arrested on 2 February on libel charges following the publication of an...

Australian news presenter Cheng Lei, who has been detained by China’s authorities since August 2020, was officially arrested on February 5 for...

Cambodian media bodies have expressed deep concern over a new directive from Cambodian police that bans journalists from filming, recording and...