News and Press Releases

Four townships in Myanmar’s Rakhine state have been closed off from internet access for nearly three months, blocking access to information to...

More than 800 workers are to lose their jobs following the announcement of the closure of the Utusan Malaysia, Mingguan Malaysia, Kosmo! and Kosmo!...

The Hong Kong government’s use of colonial era emergency regulations to prohibit face coverings in protests adds another hurdle for press freedom for...

They told you precarious work in digital media is inevitable... But it's not!

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...

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...

Pakistan news outlets ARY News and AAJ News have reportedly terminated the jobs of 150 journalists, justifying the mass lay-offs as part of a...

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

In advance of the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI) on 28 September, the IFJ has condemned the fact that 30 countries have...

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...