News and Press Releases

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), representing 600.000 journalists and media professionals from 146 countries, fully supports the…

The Indian government is continuing to ignore a Supreme Court ruling that internet services in Kashmir should be re-established. The court ruled on 10…

2019 was a turbulent time for press freedom in Iraqi Kurdistan, according to a report published today by the Kurdistan Journalists Syndicate (KJS).

Dr Li Wenliang, who was silenced by the Chinese authorities for warning people about the coronavirus, died from the illness on February 7 at the age…

"The judicial instruments being used against Julian Assange are a monstrous attack on press freedom," NUJ national executive member and International…

La directrice de l'information et la rédactrice en cheffe de la télévision nationale des Comores ont été suspendues le 30 janvier à la suite d'une…

Two journalists and two cameramen were injured on 3 February while covering the clashes near Aleppo city between government forces and armed groups.…

Representatives of parliaments, regulatory authorities, public service media governance, senior management, and civil sector from Albania, Bosnia and…

Belfast Telegraph reporter Leona O’Neill, who witnessed the killing of her colleague Lyra McKee, has received "vile and dangerous threats" according…

Journalist Marzieh Amiri will have to serve a five-year jail sentence for "spreading propaganda" against the Iranian regime, her lawyer announced on…

Wan Noor Hayati Wan Alias, a journalist and union activist was charged today in a Kuala Lumpur court for Facebook posts on the novel coronavirus and…

Journalist Daler Sharipov (32), accused of “inciting ethnic, racial, and religious discord” in his journalistic work, has been held in detention since…

Four Burundian journalists working for the Iwacu Press Group were sentenced to two years and six months in jail and fined one million Burundian francs…

Several news outlets from Hong Kong, including the BBC, Epoch Times, Radio Free Asia (RFA) and Voice of America (VOA) express concerns over…

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today released its annual report of killings of journalists, detailing 49 deaths worldwide in 2019. …

Cambodia’s Appeal Court on January 28 dismissed an appeal by two former Radio Free Asia (RFA) journalists’ against alleged espionage charges. The…