News and Press Releases

Luis Gabriel Pereira fue baleado por hombres que se movilizaban en una motocicleta. Si bien las circunstancias de su muerte aún están siendo…

Freelance journalist Sakshi Joshi was assaulted and placed in detention by police officers on May 3 while covering a protest by Indian wrestlers in…

Journalist Arman Soldin was killed in the afternoon of 9 May 2023 in a shelling attack near Chasiv Yar, in eastern Ukraine. The 32-year-old was…

The home of Ngaarda Media journalist Eliza Kloser was searched, with a memory card confiscated, after the journalist took photographs of the suspected…

Le média Euronews fête le 9 mai ses 30 ans d'existence après avoir annoncé près de 200 licenciements le 2 mars dernier. Les syndicats réclament une…

El pasado jueves, el Pleno del Congreso de la República sancionó un proyecto de ley que modifica artículos del Código Penal para incrementar las penas…

UPDATED ON 23.05.23 On 3 May, Raman Pratasevich, former editor of the Telegram opposition news channel Nexta, was given an eight year prison sentence…

Myanmar’s military junta has released five journalists jailed under arbitrary incitement and dissent charges in an amnesty on so-called ‘humanitarian…

In a rising trend of violent attacks against Pakistani media workers, Bannu-based journalist Gohar Wazir was abducted and allegedly electrocuted,…

Chinese law enforcement have arrested senior journalist Dong Yuyu on charges of espionage after he met with a Japanese diplomat in Beijing in February…

A report by the Cambodian Journalist Alliance Association (CamboJA) has documented the crackdown on media freedom since 2017, with journalists…

Journalist Hisham Abdelaziz, who worked as a producer for Al Jazeera Media Network, was released on 1 May after being held for almost four years in…

To mark World Press Freedom Day on May 3, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), on behalf of the South Asia Media Solidarity Network…

Many IFJ affiliates are taking action to mark World Press Freedom Day on 3 May. Here is a non exhaustive list of their initiatives.