News and Press Releases

Russian internet monitoring services reported widespread slowdowns of online platform YouTube on 8 August, making it nearly inaccessible without using…

Today, 9 August 2024, marks four years since the fraudulent presidential election took place in Belarus, which intensified the crackdown on…

Violence against reporters and press photographers covering protests taking place in towns across the UK is worsening, warned the National Union of…

On 1 August, journalists Alsu Kurmasheva, Evan Gershkovich, Vladimir Kara-Murza and Pablo González were freed in the framework of a prisoner exchange…

Since 29 July 2024, FoNet journalist Tamara Skrozza has been subjected to a coordinated defamation campaign by media outlets closely aligned with the…

On 1 August, Georgia's bill on Transparency of Foreign Influence came into force, posing a severe threat to press freedom and democracy, with the…

On 31 July, a Greek court acquitted the two suspects accused of murdering journalist Giorgos Karaivaz, who was shot dead near his home in Athens on 9…

"All generative AI models in existence today have been trained secretly on enormous amounts of copyright-protected content and personal data which…

At least thirty Ukrainian journalists, -6 women and 24 men-, and media workers remain illegally detained in Russia, according to data from the…

Cyprus is proposing an amendment to its criminal code that will introduce prison sentences of up to five years for anyone caught spreading “fake news”…

On 29 June, as journalist Thomas Dietrich was about to publish an investigation entitled "When Macron protects Marine Le Pen's financier" for online…

Le « Gaza Project », une enquête sur la mort de plus de cent journalistes à Gaza, en Cisjordanie et au Sud-Liban (1), aboutit à un « constat glaçant :…

The latest edition of the “Media Pluralism Monitor” (MPM2024) shows alarming alarming threats to media pluralism across Europe.

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) welcomes Julian Assange’s release on 24 June as a significant victory for media freedom. The…

The daily edition of the Greek newspaper Avgi, was shut down, on 26 June, by SYRIZA, its main stakeholder, 72 years since its first publication came…

On 26 June, the International and the European Federations of Journalists (IFJ-EFJ) will join their affiliates in Spain (FAPE, FeSP, FSC-CCOO, ELA,…