News and Press Releases

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…

Henry Fiallos, corresponsal del noticiero Hoy Mismo en la ciudad de La Esperanza, recibió entre el 11 y el 12 de febrero amenazas de muerte hacia él y…

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…

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

El lunes 8 de febrero, los periodistas Jean Ril Meus y Destiné Alvarez fueron baleados por fuerzas militares mientras se encontraban cubriendo una…

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…

When the first cases of a novel pneumonia were reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019, few could have imagined the mass consequences of a…

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

The Colombian Federation of Journalists (FECOLPER) has exposed a sharply worsening human rights situation for journalists, a crisis exacerbated by the…

El periodista Edgar Leyva Mendoza, director del medio informativo Urbano 24 horas de Veracruz, fue víctima entre el 3 y el 10 de febrero de dos…

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…

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the global labour movement in raising a racket to support Myanmar's trade unionists taking to…

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