News and Press Releases

Venezuela’s President and candidate for re-election, Nicolás Maduro, attacked international news agencies, Spanish EFE, British Reuters, French…

[UPDATED 16.07.2024] At least 117 Palestinian journalists and media workers have been killed, several have been injured and others are missing during…

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

One hundred and eighty signatories of an opinion piece, including the President and the General Secretary of the IFJ, calling for greater safety for…

Çira TV reporter Murad Mirza Ibrahim succumbed to his injuries on 11 July, following a suspected drone strike by Türkiye that hit a vehicle where a…

Aaj News journalist Hasan Zaib has been shot dead in the Nowshera district of Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province by unknown…

Journalists Adama Bayala, Serge Oulon and Kalifara Sere were abducted in separate incidents in the Burkinabe capital of Ouagadougou by suspected…

On July 8, the Kenyan High Court sitting in Kajiado ruled that the 2022 killing of Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif by Kenyan law enforcement…

Spanish journalist Lara Escudero received severe harassment and violent threats, on 1 July, while reporting in the Mea Shearim neighbourhood of…

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its Gender Council have sent a letter to the President of the International Olympic Committee,…

Journalist and prominent government critic Aidos Sadykov died on July 2, after a shooting in Kyiv on June 18 left him comatose and hospitalised. The…

Earlier this year, China arrested two ethnic Kazakh journalists in the northwestern province of Xinjiang, while jailed journalist and activist Sophie…

The bravery and determination of women journalists will be recognised in a new annual prize awarded by the International Federation of Journalists…

Journalist Shivshankar Jha was fatally stabbed on June 25 in Bihar’s northwest, with Jha’s family claiming the killing was coordinated by an organised…

Tribrata TV journalist Sempurna Pasaribu and three members of his family were tragically killed on June 27 in a fire at their home in Karo Regency,…

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