News and Press Releases

It will be too late when we learn that a plane has flown to the United States with Julian Assange on board.  Too late to reaffirm that we were…

Several journalists have been directly targeted by Israeli snipers as they were reporting on Israel's large-scale military operation in Jenin,…

La Unión de Periodistas, Artes Gráficas y Ramas Anexas (UPAGRA) expresó en un comunicado su rechazo a la detención indebida y retención de elementos…

Russian investigative journalist Yuri Shchekochikhin, deputy editor of the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, died suddenly on 3 July 2003 with what…

There were 44 cases of media and journalists’ rights violations during the first half of 2023 in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, according to a report…

Journalist Ghazi Ghareeb Zorab, who is seeking asylum in the UK, was detained on 26 June at the Dallas Court Immigration Centre in Salford, near…

Lissette Ormaza, periodista del canal Majestad TV de Santo Domingo, sufrió un accidente con su vehículo el 20 de junio, cuándo otro automóvil desde el…

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…

Nepali journalists and media workers have been subjected to a series of media rights violations in June by criminal groups, media outlet leadership,…

The undersigned organisations call on the incoming Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union to place media freedom and human rights…

With young journalists subjected to precarious working conditions and unions striving to prove their worth to a new generation of journalists, the…

Journalist Merdan Yanardağ, editor-in-chief of Turkish broadcaster TELE1, was arrested on 27 June following a judicial investigation into his…

The President of the Turkish Cypriot Press Workers’ Union (Basın-Sen), journalist Ali Kişmir, was forced to resign from the online channel TV20…

Exiled Afghan journalist Mohammad Tahir Sadid has been detained in Islamabad by local police, with some reports alleging a ransom was elicited for his…

The body of journalist Abdur Rauf Alamgir has been found floating in a river in the Indian state of Assam on June 26, after reports emerged of his…

La décision de placer à la tête du Journal du dimanche (JDD) un ancien directeur d'un hebdomadaire d'extrême droite relance le débat sur…