News and Press Releases

On November 5, Malaysian authorities made a public appeal for information on Sarawak Report editor and founder Clare Rewcastle Brown after reviving a…

Ukrainian media workers face dangerous working conditions despite recent improvement through cooperation agreements with law enforcement agencies, the…

On 8 November, the Press supervisory board of the Islamic Republic of Iran banned the publication and revoked the license of Kelid newspaper after it…

A journalist’s dead body was found on 12 November, a month after he went missing in Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria. The International Federation…

Hamid Saighani, a prominent journalist for Ariana television network, was killed in a bomb blast on a minibus in western Kabul on November 13. The…

On November 14, the Sudanese authorities arrested the bureau chief of Al Jazeera in his home in Khartoum. The International Federation of Journalists…

Las autoridades cubanas retiraron el domingo 14 de noviembre las credenciales de prensa de los/as reporteros/as de la agencia española de noticias EFE…

The Hong Kong government has refused to renew the employment visa of one of the Economist correspondents in the city without giving a reason,…

Frontier Myanmar’s managing editor Danny Fenster was found guilty and sentenced by a court to 11 years in prison with hard labour on November 12. The…

The Assistant Secretary of State of the Prime Minister of Cape Verde, Lourenco Lopes, said that Climate Change is an important issue on an urgent…

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…

On November 1, Myanmar’s military junta introduced a series of amendments to broaden the remit of the nation's Broadcasting Law to potentially include…

The investigation on the use of NSO Group’s software to spy on journalists and human rights defenders took a big step forward after identifying Juan…

In letters adressed to Yemeni Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed and Ansar Allah Leader Mr. Abdul-Malik al-Houthi on November 11, the International…

On November 9, a pregnant journalist was killed in a car blast in Aden on her way to the hospital to give birth. Her husband, also a journalist, was…

Muhammad Zada Agra was shot dead in Sakhakot by two unidentified gunmen on November 8, days after he spoke out against alleged corruption and drug…