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The World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), the International Publishers Association (IPA), and the International Federation of Journalists…

Over seven weeks since the capture of Kabul by the Taliban, and the subsequent evacuation of western troops from the city, many journalists with close…

The so-called Foreign Interference Countermeasures Act (FICA) has been passed by Singapore’s parliament on October 4, with the new legislation…

The former president of the Sudan Union of Journalists (SUJ), Dr. Mohiuddin Titawi, died on Tuesday, 5 October in Khartoum, Sudan.

Prominent Afghan journalist and author Sayed Maroof Sadat, a former government spokesperson and an affiliate of radio ‘Sub Bakhair and Sham Bakhai’,…

Youn Chhiv, journalist and owner of website Koh Kong Hot News, was sentenced to a years imprisonment on September 30 for incitement under Cambodia’s…

Since 12 August, the International Federation of Journalists, many of its affiliates and other international organisations, have received thousands of…

El fotoperiodista Albert Garcia fue detenido el 18 de octubre de 2019 en la plaza Urquinaona mientras cubría para El País la manifestación a raíz de…

Changing everything to change nothing. This could be the name of the cynical communication strategy of the new Taliban government in Afghanistan.

Radio stations Adeniya FM and Bandar Aden were suspended after police raided their headquarters in Mansourah, Aden governorate, on 27 September.…

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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 30 September, the Zimbabwean police arrested and held for two hours nine journalists covering a public demonstration in Harare. The International…

Public service media companies and international organisations have signed the Brussels Declaration on September 30, 2021, a statement for journalist…

Journalist Abdel Nasser Salama, who was arrested at his home in July 2021 and is being held on unfounded terrorism charges, started a hunger strike on…

The Taliban has closed down Afghanistan’s women’s affairs ministry and replaced it with a controversial ‘virtue and vice ministry’ in a telling and…

Employees of Hong Kong’s public broadcaster Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) have been instructed to support the Hong Kong government in safeguarding…