News and Press Releases

In less than one week, two incidents of journalists being physically attacked in Nepal have raised concerns about safety. Journalists Chhabilal Tiwari…

The Maldives Broadcasting Commission (MBC) has fined opposition-aligned Raajje TV with an exorbitant MVR two million (USD 130,000) for live…

In a letter to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the South Asia Media Solidarity…

The IFJ and EFJ have backed calls by the Belarusian Union of Journalists to immediately release a group of journalists detained in police raids and…

For the third time in less than a year, the Taipei City Government has intervened with media reporting, raising serious concerns about its commitment…

A letter to Hong Kong journalism students from the chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association, Chris Yeung.

During a live television interview with Voice of America’s (VOA) mandarin program, Sun Wenguang was forcibly arrested by Chinese security forces who…

Days after the Foreign Correspondent’s Club of Hong Kong (FCCHK), announced pro-independence activity, Andy Chan, as a speaker at a lunch event, the…

Policemen in plain clothes stormed the house of veteran photojournalist Shahidul Alam in Dhanmondi, Dhaka on the evening of Sunday, August 5, and…

Unidentified gunmen fired shots at Express News TV anchor Imran Khan’s house in Lahore, the capital of Punjab Province in north-eastern Pakistan on…

The IFJ has condemned the killing of Libyan journalist Moussa Abdel Karim in Sebha.

The IFJ has backed calls by its affiliate, the National Writers Union, for the US authorities to release Tennessee journalist Manuel Duran Ortega…

El sindicato español Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) participó el pasado jueves en un acto de protesta ante la Embajada de Egipto en Madrid para pedir la…

Several journalists were attacked, threatened and arrested as they covered the strike of workers at the NutriAsia factory in Marilao, Bulacan in the…

Journalists Sandeep Kumar and Neeraj Bali of News18 TV were attacked in Jalalabad in Punjab, India on July 30 while reporting on the illegal sand…

Information following an explosion outside the United States Embassy in Beijing on July 26 has raised questions about access to information in China,…