News and Press Releases

Tunisian Journalist Salah Attia, founder and editor-in-chief of the online newspaper Al-Ray al-Jadid, was sentenced to three months in jail on August…

Hundreds of journalists at the UK’s largest national and regional news publisher are to strike for four days to demand a fair pay increase after…

A Quezon City court has ordered the National Telecommunication Commission (NTC) to cease blocking the website of independent media outlet Bulatlat,…

One year on from the Taliban takeover, the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) has today called on governments and the international community…

El comunicador se encontraba camino a una cobertura cuando fue sorprendido por dos sicarios que le dispararon al menos nueve veces dentro del vehículo…

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…

A new report released by an IFJ Afghan affiliate has outlined the bleak conditions faced by women journalists in Afghanistan, including financial…

In the year following the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul, the IFJ has received thousands of requests for assistance from journalists and media workers on…

Lailuma Sadid is an Afghan journalist and a political refugee due to the threats that she received from the Taliban for her journalistic work. She has…

Armed Taliban militants assaulted and intimidated members of an Al-Hadath TV crew during a live broadcast in Kabul on August 10. The International…

Independent citizen journalist, Do Cong Duong, has died in detention on August 2 while serving an eight-year sentence for reporting on land seizures…

Ahead of the anniversary of Taliban's takeover of Kabul, Afghanistan's capital on August 15, IFJ Deputy General Secretary Jeremy Dear, who has been…

Maria Antoniadou is the President of JUADN, one of IFJ's Greek affiliates. The union has a long tradition of helping journalists in need coming from…

Taiwanese pro-independence news outlet, Formosa Television (FTV) News, has been subject to cyber-attacks and disruptions from suspected Chinese…

[UPDATE 04.10.2023] Russian journalist Marina Ovsiannikova was officially charged with “spreading false information” about the army on Wednesday 10…

On the eve of the first anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Kabul, Afghanistan on August 15, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the…