News and Press Releases

The Global Unions Federations and the International Trade Union Confederation call on the Egyptian president to order the immediate release of Ahmed…

Dozens of journalists and media workers were arrested and beaten by the police on January 23 while covering protests in support of jailed opposition…

The disruption of the global economy due to COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 exacerbated the commercial challenges already facing the media industry around…

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…

Reporter Hamdi Atef Abdel Fattah and online news editor Ahmed Khalifa went missing after being arrested between 4 and 6 January on charges of…

A Gujarat court has issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against senior Indian journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta following the filing of a defamation…

El nuevo impuesto sobre algunos servicios digitales en España -conocido como Tasa Google- generará enormes ingresos este año. Estos beneficios, según…

Five men have been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of journalist Humayun Kabir Balu, sixteen years after he was killed in a targeted…

There were more than 600 violations of media and journalists’ rights during 2020 in Palestine, according to the latest report from the Palestine…

El inicio de las campañas de vacunación alrededor del mundo ha traído una luz de esperanza para terminar con la pandemia de COVID-19, pero al mismo…

La reciente aprobación de varias vacunas contra la Covid-19 en todo el mundo ha hecho que miles de periodistas estén informando a contrarreloj sobre…

In the first 15 days of 2021, the Turkish Journalists Union (TGS) has already recorded five physical attacks against journalists in Turkey. The…

A mob of nearly a dozen people led by the imam of a local mosque attacked Zohra Radio in north eastern Kunduz province on January 15 damaging the…

A journalist, persecuted on fabricated charges, was arrested on 17 January as he fled Iran to escape a jail sentence, and now fears being handed over…

Malaysia’s national journalism union has requested cooperation from Malaysia’s government as well as media and non-media workers in addressing…

Criminal prosecutions of journalists are increasing in Belarus. Journalby editor Andrei Alexandrov was arrested on 12 January. Eight other journalists…