News and Press Releases

Interview with Mohamed Hamdhoon, Assistant Editor , Mihaaru News, Maldives. He is the president of newly revived Maldives Journalists Association…

The Jammu and Kashmir Police have registered a First Information Report (FIR) on October 4 against a website that published a list of journalists and…

Online journalist Sovann Rithy, arrested in April for “incitement to cause chaos”, was released from detention on October 5. The Phnom Penh Municipal…

Cambodian television journalist, Kuy Piseth from news portal News English (CNE), died in Phnom Penh in the early hours of September 29. The…

La pandemia del Covid-19 ha cambiado radicalmente la forma en que millones de trabajadores/as de todo el mundo, incluidos los de los medios de…

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins international calls on the government of Indonesia to repeal the Omnibus Law on Job Creation,…

Derana TV journalist Indunil Wijenayake was attacked by sand-miners in the Kumbukkan Oya area of Monaragala district on October 3 while reporting on…

The government in Karnataka has shutdown Power TV, a private broadcaster, in retaliation for the broadcaster’s reports on corruption allegations…

Four local online news journalists were attacked on September 28 in the Tbong Khmum province after reporting on forestry crimes in the district. The…

Kamal Shukla, the editor of Bhumkal Samachar magazine and head of the Patrakar Suraksha Kanoon Sanyukt Sangharsh Samiti, an organisation to protect…

Pakistani journalist Abid Hussain Abidi, affiliated with local newspaper Jurm-o- Saza, was shot dead in Mandi Bahaudin in the Malikwal district on…

We, the undersigned affiliate members of the International Federation of Journalists, welcome the decision of the United Nations Educational,…

Ehtisham Kiyani, a reporter for Channel 24 was arrested on false charges for allegedly bearing weapons in Islamabad’s High Court. The International…

Journalists Asad Toor, Bilal Farooqi, and Absar Alam have all been charged with sedition between September 11 and September 16 for publishing…

The cyber wing of the Jammu and Kashmir Police summoned and abused Auqib Javeed, a Kashmir based journalist, over a news report about police…

Under a new policy, Hong Kong’s police will cease to recognise press accreditation issued by local media or journalist associations unless they are…