The President of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) , Jim Boumelha, told an international conference entitled 'News Organisations Standing Up for the Safety of Media Professionals' at UNESCO in Paris that media executives and journalists' organisations need to work together to provide journalists with protection.
M. Boumelha, who spoke at the opening of the conference on 5 February, along side UNESCO Director Irina Bokova and World Editors Forum Vice-President Erik Bjerager, said that the safety crisis in journalism is the result of increasing dangers in journalism and the failure to implement international legal instruments which are meant to protect journalists,…
A radio journalist has been brutally injured on 4 February by unknown assailants while covering a massive rally in the capital, Athens. The International and the European Federations of Journalists, (IFJ) and (EFJ), have joined their Greek affiliate, the Journalists’ Union of Athens Daily Newspapers (JUADN), in calling upon the authorities to condemn the attack and open a prompt investigation.
Reporter Demitrios Perros, working as a freelance for municipal radio Athens 9,84FM, was severely attacked by unknown assailants on 4 February in the afternoon while covering the protest rally organized by GSEE and ADEDY (public and private sector workers confederations).
The journalist was…
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Afghanistan Independent Journalists Association (AIJA) in welcoming the issuance of a decree on impunity of media workers and facilitation of the media activities on January 31. The IFJ calls on the Afghanistan government to ensure the decree improves the security situation of journalists and ensure media freedom.
On January 31, Afghan President, Ashraf Ghani, issue a decree which orders the police and security services to improve their behaviour towards journalists, to respect the media law, and to reopen investigations into murders of journalists that have taken place in recent years.
The decree guarantees the role of the…
The President of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) , Jim Boumelha, today told an international conference entitled 'News Organisations Standing Up for the Safety of Media Professionals' at UNESCO in Paris that media executives and journalists' organisations need to work together to provide journalists with protection.
M. Boumelha, who spoke at the opening of the conference, along side UNESCO Director Irina Bokova and World Editors Forum Vice-President Erik Bjerager, said that the safety crisis in journalism is the result of increasing dangers in journalism and the failure to implement international legal instruments which are meant to protect…
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 mentioned.
Read some of the news highlights from Friday 29th January to Friday 5th February:
1.Report counts some 2,300 journalists killed in past 25 years
2.Más de 2,000 periodistas asesinados en 25 años
3.En 25 años, 2.297 periodistas han sido asesinados, informa FIP
4.Hong Kong press freedoms decline in 2015: report
5.World briefs: Turkish police recover painting resembling Picasso’s work
6.Israel to demolish 30 houses in occupied West Bank
7.2.300 journalistes tués dans le monde en 25 ans
8.Près de 2.300…
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) in raising concern for the treatment of journalists by law enforcement agencies in Karachi on February 2. The IFJ and PFUJ call on the Pakistani government to investigate the incident and take immediate steps to guarantee the safety of the media community.
On February 2, at least 6 journalists and media workers were attacked as they covered a protest at the Jinnah International Airport in Karachi. The media were covering a protest by Pakistan International Airport (PIA) employees. Police attended the protest and attempted to break it up with batons and water cannons. There were also…
The International Federation of Journalists today published its 25th report on journalists and media staff killed since 1990. The report lists 2297 media fatalities due to violence in journalism, including 112 killed in 2015 alone. From double digits at the start of these publications, the figures reached three digits in eleven years, peaking to 155 killings of journalists and media staff in 2006, the deadliest year on record, according to the IFJ reports.
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The International Federation of Journalists today published its 25th report on journalists and media staff killed since 1990. The report lists 2297 media fatalities due to violence in journalism, including 112 killed in 2015 alone. From double digits at the start of these publications, the figures reached three digits in eleven years, peaking to 155 killings of journalists and media staff in 2006, the deadliest year on record, according to the IFJ reports.
“This milestone publication charts the trajectory of safety crisis in journalism and bears witness to the IFJ’s long running campaign to end impunity for violence against media professionals,” said IFJ President Jim…
The International Federation of Journalists today published its 25th report on journalists and media staff killed since 1990. The report lists 2297 media fatalities due to violence in journalism, including 112 killed in 2015 alone. From double digits at the start of these publications, the figures reached three digits in eleven years, peaking to 155 killings of journalists and media staff in 2006, the deadliest year on record, according to the IFJ reports.
“This milestone publication charts the trajectory of safety crisis in journalism and bears witness to the IFJ’s long running campaign to end impunity for violence against media professionals,” said IFJ President Jim Boumelha.…
Three Yemeni journalists, who are held captive by the Houthis since last June, are reported to have been tortured on 30 January, according to the Yemen Journalists’ Syndicate (YJS), an IFJ affiliate. The International Federation of Journalist (IFJ), which represents more than 600,000 journalists in the world, condemns the torturing and the bad treatment of the detained journalists and renews its call to immediately release them.
According to their families, journalists Toufic Al Mansoury, AbdelKhaleek Omran and Akram Al Waleedi, who are held in al Thawra prison in the capital Sana’a, were isolated in individual cells last Saturday night and then tortured and beaten by rifles and other…
The correspondent for the government-run Nangarhar TV and Radio network, in the Afghan district of Surkhrod, was shot dead by unidentified assailants as he was returning home from a private gathering. According to reports, Khaksar had received threats from Daesh.
Beyond the economic, commercial and diplomatic relationships, France, country of the Human rights, cannot ignore the fact that Iranian journalists’ rights and freedom of the press are not respected. Those matters can’t be ignored during the meeting between the French and the Iranian presidents.
The French syndicates (SNJ, SNJ-CGT, CFDT-Journalistes, all members of the IFJ) support their Iranian colleagues who are fighting for the respect of their rights.
For more information, read the full article in French here.
SNJ, SNJ-CGT, CFDT-Journalistes
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The IFJ represents more than 600,000 journalists in…
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Afghanistan Independent Journalists Association (AIJA) in condemning the murder of a senior broadcast journalist in eastern Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, on January 29. The IFJ urges the Afghanistan government to immediately investigate the killing, and take immediate steps to secure the safety of the media community in Afghanistan.
Haji Mohammad Zubair Khaksar, a correspondent for the government-run Nangarhar TV and Radio network, in Surkhrod district, was shot dead by unidentified assailants as he was returning home from a private gathering. According to reports, Khaksar had received threats from…
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) in condemning an attack on a radio station in southern Nepal on January 29. The IFJ and FNJ call for an immediate investigation into the attack.
A gang of 15 unidentified people entered the office of Radio Madhesh 89.3 Mhz and the Madesh Post weekly in Sarlahi district at 6 pm on Friday and vandalized the office and threatened staff, according to reports. The attack left the office’s doors and windows damanged, with Radio Madhesh 89.3 Mhz stopping its broadcast after the attack, citing security concerns.
The FNJ, in a statement, said: “The FNJ believe that the incident is an…
Today, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) releases its annual China Press Freedom Report, China’s Great Media Wall: The Fight For Freedom. Launched at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Hong Kong today, the 2015 report is an annual analysis of press freedom and the ever increasing challenges, obstacles and challenges for journalists and media workers in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau.
“Propaganda, censorship, surveillance, intimidation, detention, brutality and attacks and televised ‘confessions’ have become go-to tools for the government as they tighten their grip on the media and the press in 2015,” the IFJ said.
China’s Great Media Wall: The Fight for Freedom…
The French journalist and the British photojournalist who had been arrested on 28 January in the Burundian capital, Bujumbura, have been released.
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ, representing 600 000 journalists across the world, joins its affiliates in France (SNJ, SNJ-CGT, CFDT-Journalistes) and Burundi (Union Burundaise desJournalistes) in welcoming their release.
The African Bureau Chief of the French Daily, Le Monde, Jean Philippe Remy 49 and British Photojournalist, Phil Moore 34 were arrested on Thursday, 28 January, by the police as they reported on gunmen opposed to the government. They had been held in a secret location since then.
For more…
Greek journalists joined on 28 January a 24-hour strike protesting recent government plans to overhaul the social security system initiated by workers in private and public sector as well as farmers, which is going on since 8th January 2016.
Members of the International and the European Federation of Journalists in Greece (PFJU, JUADN, ESIEMTH and ESPIT) held a protest rally and marched to the Greek Parliament calling on the government to engage in dialogue with the workers’ organisations before overhauling the entire system. They also urged for the autonomy of the sector’s social insurance funds and guaranties of their financial resources as well as all press workers’…
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 mentioned.
Read some of the news highlights from Friday 22nd to Friday 29th January:
1. IFJ condemns attemps by Houthis in Yemen to silence press
2. Loi "Renseignement" : les syndicats de journalistes saisissent la justice européenne
3. IFJ condemns BBS leader's actions disrupting missing Sri Lankan journalist's court proceedings
4. Une conférence sur la sécurité des journalistes réunit des responsables de médias et des Etats membres de l’UNESCO
5. Gabon: Année éléctorale, la communauté internationale alerte…
Les syndicats français de journalistes (SNJ, SNJ-CGT, CFDT Journalistes), membres de la FIJ et de la FEJ, dénoncent avec la plus grande force la décision de la justice turque qui a requis la prison à vie contre nos confrères Can Dündar et Erdem Gül, les deux journalistes du quotidien d’opposition Cumhuriyet, emprisonnés depuis deux mois.
La justice turque sous l’emprise du président Recep Tayyip Erdogan, qui a juré de se venger de nos deux confrères, a aggravé ses réquisitions.
Poursuivis pour "espionnage" et "divulgation de secrets d'Etat", Can Dündar, rédacteur en chef du journal et Erdem Gül, responsable du bureau d’Ankara, sont en plus accusés de "tentative…
Al Jazeera channel’s Arabic correspondent Hamdi Al-Bokari and his crew, journalist Abdulaziz Al-Sabri and driver Moneer Al-Sabai, have been released this morning, the Qatari cable news network said today. The crew went missing on 18 January in the city of Taiz, southern Yemen, while covering events. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) welcomes the safe return of the TV crew and urges the warring parties to do their utmost to protect media workers’ safety.
The team was covering events in the besieged city of Taiz, Yemen’s second most populated city which is controlled by Yemeni forces and armed groups loyal to Yemeni president but is surrounded by rebel…
Al Jazeera channel’s Arabic correspondent Hamdi Al-Bokari and his crew, journalist Abdulaziz Al-Sabri and driver Moneer Al-Sabai, have been released this morning, the Qatari cable news network said today. The crew went missing on 18 January in the city of Taiz, southern Yemen, while covering events. Announcing their release, Al-Jazeera said that the journalists had been kidnapped by unknown gunmen, according to AFP.
Source: AFP/ Al -Jazeera
A Turkish prosecutor demanded on 27 January “aggravated life imprisonment and imprisonment up to 30 years” for Can Dündar and Erdem Gül, two prominent journalists working for the Cumhuriyet daily. They are accused of aiding a terrorist organisation and disclosing classified documents. The International and European Federation of Journalists, (IFJ) and (EFJ), urge the European institutions to send a strong signal to the Turkish authorities so that they fully respect press freedom in the country.
Prosecutor İrfan Fidan demanded the journalists' life sentences during a court hearing that took place on 27 January in Instanbul. According…
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliates, the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) and the Nepal Press Union (NPU), in condemning the attack on a journalist in Kathmandu on January 24. The IFJ demands an immediate investigation into the attack, and those found responsible to be brought to justice.
An unidentified gang attacked Hira Lal Biswakarma, a journalist of Himalaya Times daily, while he was returning home from office, near Mid Baneshwor, at 9:30pm.The attack left Biswakarma injured and requiring hospital treatment. The attackers also stole Biswakarma’s wallet and personal documents.
Biswakarma is also a Central Committee Member and Head of…
TV cameraman Hashem Al Hamran died on Friday 22 January from his injuries following an air raid by the Saudi-led coalition in the city of Dahian, Yemeni province of Saada, media reported. Meanwhile, Al Thawri newspaper has been silenced by al Houthi militia last week. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), representing more than 600,000 journalists in the world, has backed its affiliate, the Yemeni Journalists Syndicate (YJS), in condemning such attempts to silence opposing voices and has urged the warring parties to respect journalists’ safety and media pluralism in Yemen.
Hashem Al Hamran was filming bombing raids for the Al Masirah Houthi-owned television channel when on 21…
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Free Media Movement, Sri Lanka (FMM) in condemning the actions by a Buddhist monk in disrupting the court hearing regarding the abduction of journalist Prageeth Eknaligoda in Homagama, outside Colombo on January 25. The IFJ demands a fair hearing of the case; and for the courts and authorities to take action against any persons who attempt to disrupt the proceedings
On Monday, January 25, monk Galabodaatthe Gnanasara, a leader of the Buddhist group, Bodu Bala Sena, entered the Homagama Magistrate Court, where the court case against those accused of abducting journalist Prageeth Eknaligoda was taking place. Gnanasara…
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) will launch its annual China Press Report on January 30, the eighth press freedom report on China by the IFJ. The China Press Freedom report is a key component of the IFJ China Press Freedom project. The first report, China’s Olympic Challenge was published in early 2009, documenting the media environment in 2008 and infringements on journalists’ rights and media freedom. Since 2009, the report continues to develop to report on the changing media environment and challenges for China’s media community.
The 2015 report documents the government control and suppression of press freedom and freedom of expression through policies, laws,…
Paul Dabravolski, a reporter working for the Belarusian news website TUT.BY, was arrested and fined with 9.450.000 Belarusian rubles (420 EUR) for filming police beating two protesters during a court hearing on a graffiti case on 25 January. The International and European Federation of Journalists, (IFJ) and (EFJ), have backed their affiliate the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ) in condemning the arrest and have urged the authorities to withdraw all charges against Dabravolski.
Dabravolski, who is a member of the BAJ, was arrested while he was covering a hearing where two supporters were protesting in the court with a banner saying “stop…
La Federación Internacional de Periodistas (FIP), recuerda hoy el cruento asesinato del reportero gráfico José Luis Cabezas, quien fue secuestrado, torturado, asesinado y su cuerpo quemado el día 25 de enero de 1997. La mayoría de los implicados en el asesinato, pertenecientes a una banda criminal liderada por ex policías, hoy gozan de impunidad y/o del beneficio de la libertad condicional: de los nueve condenados que tuvo el caso, ninguno cumple condena efectiva.
Cabezas y su familia habían recibido anteriormente numerosas amenazas por parte del entorno del empresario Alfredo Yabrán, a quien el reportero había retratado en el marco de una investigación y dando a conocer por primera vez…
La Federación Internacional de Periodistas (FIP) junto a su afiliado el Sindicato Nacional de Redactores de la Prensa de México (SNRP) repudian el asesinato del periodista Marcos Hernández Bautista, encontrado muerto por el disparo de un arma de fuego al lado de su vehículo en el municipio de San Andrés Huaxpaltepec, Oaxaca.
Hernández Bautista, trabajador de los medios Imagen de Oaxaca y Noticias Voz, daba cobertura a la situación de precariedad de las radios comunitarias e indígenas de la región, en especial al desmantelamiento de la Radiodifusora Cultural Indigenista XEJAM por parte del la Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas (CDI). El comunicador había…
The Palestinian government agreed on January 21 not to publish in the Official Bulletin a Bill on the creation of a Higher Media Council. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), representing more than 600,000 journalists in the world, supports its affiliate the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) , in its urgent call on Palestinian authorities to relaunch consultations with the media sector before passing any law.
The Bill aimed at creating a Higher Media Council responsible for regulating all forms of media in Palestine. Attempts by the Palestinian government to control the functioning of the regulatory body and its composition has led to serious criticisms from PJS. The…
Three Aljazeera Arabic news staff went missing in the city of Taiz in southern Yemen and fears are growing that they may have been kidnapped.
According to Al Jazeera, its Arabic correspondent, Hamdi Al-Bokari and his crew, journalist Abdulaziz Al-Sabri and driver Moneer Al-Sabai, were last seen on January 18 . The team was covering events in the besieged city of Taiz, Yemen’s second most populated city which is controlled by Yemeni forces and armed groups loyal to Yemeni president but is surrounded by rebels forces.
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Three Aljazeera Arabic news staff are believed to have been kidnapped in the city of Taiz in southern Yemen. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Yemeni Journalists’ Syndicate (YJS) demand their immediate release and call on the warring parties to do their utmost to protect journalists’ safety and enforce security measures for media professionals on the ground.
According to Al Jazeera, its Arabic correspondent, Hamdi Al-Bokari and his crew, journalist Abdulaziz Al-Sabri and driver Moneer Al-Sabai, were last seen on January 18 . The team was covering events in the besieged city of Taiz, Yemen’s second most populated city which is controlled by Yemeni…
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 mentioned.
Read some of the news highlights from Friday 15th to Friday 22nd January:
1. IFJ Decries Risks To Middle East Journalists
2. Rencontre de concertation à Tunis sur le lancement d’un mécanisme arabe pour soutenir la liberté d’information
3. La Federación Internacional de Periodistas preocupada por la violación a la libertad de prensa en Argentina
4. Yemen: journalist escapes murder attempt (IFJ - International Federation of Journalists)
5. Inl’t press body condemns killings of journalists in Afghanistan
6. IFJ: Seven killed…
The International and European Federations of Journalists, (IFJ) and (EFJ), strongly condemn physical attacks against IMC TV reporter and cameraman Refik Tekin and other press correspondents who were reporting from Cizre (Southeast of Turkey) on 20 January about the ongoing state of emergency.
According to local reports, 10 people including journalist Refik Tekin have been gunned by unidentified special operations police forces and members of gendarmerie special operations active in Cizre. Tekin, who was reporting the situation from the ground for the last 38 days along with other colleagues, is now suffering from bullet in his left leg.
The IFJ and EFJ…
According to reports, seven members of the Kaboora Production, which produces content for TOLO TV, Lemar TV, Arman FM, Arakozia FM and TOLONews of the MOBY Media Group, were killed when the bus was targeted in the bomb attack at 5pm at Darul Aman Road in south western Kabul.Reports said that a suicide bomber rammed a motorcycle into the bus before detonating a bomb. They included 28-year-old Jawad Hussaini, who was a video editor at TOLO TV. More than two dozen others, including women and children, were injured in the attack.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. It has previously threatened TOLO TV in October 2015 saying they no longer considered TOLO TV as a media…
A suicide attack on a media van carrying staff from TOLO TV, an Afghanistan TV channel, killed 7 media professionals on January 20. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Afghanistan Independent Journalists Association (AIJA) and the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) in condemning the attack and demand immediate action by the Afghan government.
The van carried at least 30 media staff of the TOLO TV-owned Kaboora Production. The blast follows a series of threats issued against the TV company in late 2015.
According to reports, seven members of the Kaboora Production, which produces content for TOLO TV, Lemar TV, Arman FM, Arakozia FM and…
Happy New Year 2016!
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1. Deadly start to…
La Federación Internacional de Periodistas (FIP) se une a su organización afiliada el Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Prensa (SNTP) en lamentar y rechazar el brutal asesinato de Ricardo Durán, miembro la organización.
Durán, quien fuera periodista en Venezolana de Televisión (VTV) y Director de Comunicación e Información de la Asamblea Nacional, fue muerto en la entrada de su domicilio la madrugada de este miércoles por personas aún sin identificar.
Junto al SNTP, la Federación Internacional de Periodistas solicita a las autoridades venezolanas que continúen la investigación criminal hasta dar con los responsables intelectuales y materiales del asesinato.
Para más…
Ukrainian journalist Maria Varfolomeyeva has been held under arbitrary detention since 9 January 2015 in Luhansk city by the authorities of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR). The journalist has been accused of spying for the Ukrainian nationalist movement (Right Sector) and threatened with a 15-year jail sentence, media reported. The International and European Federations of Journalists, representing around 600,000 journalists in the world, have backed their Ukrainian affiliates in condemning such an unlawful detention and urge for her immediate release.
According to reports, Varfolomeyeva, working for local news website Svobodny Reporter and as a fixer for various…
Unidentified gunmen shot the correspondent of a local newspaper near Niazi Chowk, Dera Ismail Khan, a town in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. Umar sustained critical injuries and died on arrival at the District Headquarters Hospital.
The 33-year-old Aaj TV journalist was killed in a suicide bomb attack on the outskirts of Peshawar at the Jamrud Check Point, in Khyber area. The blast also killed at least a dozen others at the scene.
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) condemn the killing of two journalists in the past week in the troubled Khyber-Pakhtunhkhwa province in Pakistan’s north-west. The IFJ demands immediate action from Pakistani authorities to investigate both attacks and calls on the Government of Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa to make all efforts to cooperate and lead investigations.
A suicide bomb attack on the outskirts of Peshawar killed journalist Mehboob Shah Afridi, 33, of Aaj TV at the Jamrud Check Point, in Khyber Agency, on Tuesday, January 19. The attack also resulted in the deaths of at least a dozen others at the…
Yemeni journalist Almigdad Mojalli was killed on 17 January in an air raid by the Saudi-led coalition in the capital, Sana’a, according to news reports. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), representing around 600,000 journalists in the world, and its affiliate the Yemen Journalists’ Syndicate (YJS) have condemned the killing and again called on the warring parties to do their utmost to protect journalists and their right to report on the conflict safely.
Almigdad Mojalli, who worked for Voice of America and the IRIN humanitarian news agency, was hit by shrapnel as a missile slammed into Sana’a’s southern Jaref suburb while covering air strikes, media reported.
“We…
TV journalists working for RTL Info and France 3 were physically attacked on 15 January 2016 in Molenbeek (Belgium) by family members of one of the perpetrators of the Paris November 2015 terror attacks where more than 100 people were killed.
The two television crews were willing to interview any person who could comment on the profile of Chakib Akrouh who, according to media reports, was identified by his DNA as the terrorist who blew himself up in Saint-Denis (Paris) during the police raid which led to the capture of several suspects. The attacked journalists tried to calm the situation down and repeatedly said that they had asked for the violence against them as well as the…
The Yemeni freelance journalist was killed in a raid by the Saudi-led coalition on the capital city, Sanaa, under Houthis rebels’ control. Mojalli was hit by shrapnel as a missile slammed into the capital's southern Jaref suburb while he was covering air strikes, according to AFP quoting the victim’s colleague, photojournalist Bahir Hameed.
"Planes were hovering above when we were struck," Hameed said.
According to his Twitter account, Mojalli reported for Voice Of America and the IRIN humanitarian news agency. IRIN said it was "shocked by this terrible loss".
Source: AFP
The International Federation of Journalists condemns the attack by local police on three journalists in Suqian, in Jiangsu province in north-eastern China on January 12. The IFJ demands an immediate investigation into the attack and those responsible bought to justice.
The three journalists working for the Yangtse Evening Post and Modern Express Post tried to report on a protest in front of a local high school, following the discovery of a student’s body in a nearby river on January 10. Shortly after the protest, which was organized by the victim’s family, started, police arrived and immediately started detaining protesters. At the same time, some of the police focused on the…
The International Federation of Journalists urges police authorities of Wuwei city, in the Gansu province to immediately release information about the detention of three journalists on 9 January 2016. The IFJ calls on the local government to ensure transparency throughout the investigation.
Zhang Yongsheng, from the Lanzhou Morning Post, Luo Huansu, from the Lanzhou Evening Post and Zhang Zhenguo from Western Business News were detained by Wuwei police, on allegations of extortion against the government and individuals. The police did not provide any further information, yet voiced suspicion over claims the trio covered news together. Another Chinese journalist told the IFJ that Yongsheng…
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 mentioned.
Read some of the news highlights from Monday 11 to Friday 15th January:
1. Two Iraqi broadcast journalists shot dead by masked men
2. Turkey responds to CoE on Keneş, admits journalist arrested for continuing to post tweets
3. Journalists to protest Polish media law in Brussels on January 13
4. FIP expresa preocupación por ley de medios en Argentina
5. Plaidoyer pour intégrer le genre dans les médias
6. Polish president urged not to sign controversial media law
7. Council of Europe urges…
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns the attack on the Islamabad office of the Pakistani television channel ARY News on Wednesday, January 13. The IFJ demands an immediate investigation into the attack by authorities.
According to ARY News, unidentified attackers hurled a hand grenade at the Islamabad bureau office of ARY News, on Wednesday evening, also firing gunshots injuring a non-linear editor. The assailants who were riding a motorbike, lobbed a hand grenade at the ARY News offices and fired several shots before security guards retaliated swiftly forcing the attackers to flee away. The attackers threw pamphlets claiming that the Islamic State’s Afghanistan…
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Palestinian Journalists’ syndicate (PJS) are deeply concerned over the health of a Palestinian journalist who has been on hunger strike for almost 50 days to protest against his imprisonment without trial by Israeli forces.
Mohammad Al-Qiq, 33 and father of two, is a reporter for the Saudi news channel AlMajd. He was arrested without charge on 21 November 2015 at his home in the West Bank city of Ramallah and was brutally interrogated by the Israeli police forces, PJS reported. Since mid-December, he has been placed under administrative detention, which allows imprisonment without trial for six-month periods…
First Vice-President of the Commission Frans Timmermans announced this morning that a preliminary assessment of the Polish public service broadcasters' situation will be carried out within the EU Rule of Law Framework. In the following weeks, the European Commission will enter into a dialogue with the Polish government. The International and European Federation of Journalists have welcomed the action, after participating in a protest in solidarity with Polish colleagues in front of the country's embassy today in Brussels.
The signature of a restrictive media law by the president of Poland Andrzej Duda last 7 January has…
Journalist Saif Tallal and cameraman Hassan al-Anbaki working for Sharqiya TV channel were shot dead on 12 January by militiamen near Baquba, the capital of Diyala province in Iraq. They were the first media workers killed in 2016. Tallal and al-Anbaki were killed on their way back from covering attacks on a mosque in the Muqdadiyah area.
A staff member from Sharqiya, a Sunni-owned TV channel known for its editorial line opposing the central government, told media that Tallal and al-Anbaki were returning to Baquba from a reporting trip when masked men stopped the vehicle in the village of Abu Saida, ordered the media workers out and executed them.
"The Iraqi Journalists’…
Gunmen shot dead Saif Tallal, correspondent Sharqiya TV, and his cameraman Hassan al-Anbagi in Diyala north-east of Baghdad, according to channel quoted by AFP. Sharqiya TV is a Sunni-owned TV channel viewed as sympathetic to the country's Sunni minority, reports say.
According to the TV channed, the journalists were killed while returning to Baquba from a reporting trip on the attack on a mosque in Muqdadiya town, 69 miles north-east Baghdadwith, with the head of security command responsible for the province, Staff Lieutenant General Mizher al-Azzawi.
Minas al-Suhail, a colleague from the channel, told AFP that the two journalists were driving some distance behind the…
Nabel Subaye, a Yemeni journalist, escaped a murder attempt by armed men on Saturday 2 January in Sana’a, Yemen’s capital. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Yemeni Journalist Syndicate (YJS) strongly condemn these attacks and demand that the de facto authorities in Yemen investigate the circumstances of the murder attempt and punish the perpetrators.
Subaye is a well-known Yemeni journalist who writes in several national newspapers. He is an outspoken critic of the Houthi group and its leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi. On 2 January, Subaye was walking in downtown Sana’a when he was intercepted by armed men on a motorbike. The men shot him twice…
Apenas doce días después de la modificación por decreto de la Ley de Servicios de Comunicación Audiovisual (también conocida como Ley de Medios), normativa que, entre otros aspectos, regulaba la concentración de medios poniendo un límite a la cantidad de licencias por empresa y observaba a la comunicación como un derecho ciudadano, el sector periodístico en la Argentina debe afrontar una nueva amenaza: el despido del locutor crítico al gobierno Víctor Hugo Morales, desvinculación que, según declaraciones del locutor, puede ser tomada como un intento de disciplinamiento a los medios y periodistas opositores.
Víctor Hugo Morales, tras casi 30 años de labor en Radio Continental (hoy…
The IFJ Gender Council held on 9 January its statutory mid-term conference on the theme Gender and Media: Women Taking the Lead, hosted by the IFJ member union, the Syndicat national de la presse marocaine, at its newly inaugurated Maison de la presse in Tangier, Morocco.
The first day was opened by the Gender Council co-chair Mounia Belafia, IFJ president Jim Boumelha and union officials attracting scores of journalists from the union as well as members of the Gender Council from IFJ regions.
During the conference, participants discussed issues relating to gender and media in three sessions: (i) Global media and women’s rights, (ii) Women empowerment: comparison and common ground…
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 mentioned.
Read some of the news highlights from Monday 04 to Monday 11 January:
1. Conseil de l'Europe: le président polonais ne doit pas signer la loi sur les medias
2. FIP pide proteger libertad de expresión en aniversario ataque Charlie Hebdo
3. Polish president urged not to sign controversial media law
4. Poland Passes Contentious Media Law Amid Rumors of Mass Sackings
5. Report marks an increase in targeted terrorist attacks against journalists in 2015
6. Press freedom groups file complaint over Polish media law
7. Free…
The staff reporter for the Juger Alo daily was hacked to death by unidentified assailants who tied him to a tree in an isolated place in Dharmadas area on Dhaka-Rangpur Highway.
Police officers recovered the body on 24 December and confirmed that the death was the result of a planned murder with killers hitting the journalist with sharp weapons in the head and hands. The police is trying to recover the cell phone, motorbike and digital camera the killers took away from the slain journalist.
Utsho's colleagues said he might have been murdered for writing regularly on drug peddling following which law enforcers busted some dens of drug peddlers and traders. On 24 December,…
The English editor of Waagacusub news website and a sports reporter, was followed by two gunmen from the mosque after night prayers and shot four times in the head and chest near his home in Dharkeneley district, southwest Mogadishu, according to the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) - an IFJ affiliate - quoting witness and family sources. The journalist died on the spot and killers escaped from the crime scene.
Hussein was a well-known journalist who had previously received life-threatening messages and calls following critical reports on terrorism published by Waagacusub news website, NUSOJ added.
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), representing 600 000 journalists worldwide, has expressed its deep concerns today following the blocking of news web site al-Araby al-Jadeed and its English counterpart The New Arab, in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Egypt.
Al-Araby al-Jadeed and The New Arab report that they were initially blocked by the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Culture and Media on 22nd December. Then, the UAE also blocked access to the website. Later, Egypt took the same path.
The editors of al-Araby al-Jadeed and The New Arab said they received no explanation for these infringements to press freedom. Abdulrahman Elshayyal, CEO of al-Araby al-Jadeed and The New Arab,…
One year after the massacre at French magazine Charlie Hebdo, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) recalls that 112 journalists were killed in 2015 and near 2200 since 1990.
One year ago in Paris, 10 staff members of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were killed in their newsroom by two terrorists. Today, the entire profession is mourning the loss of giants in French journalism. In a country which saw the Declaration of Human Rights and the Citizen in 1789, these murders had such an impact that millions of citizens and journalists across the world got together to stand in favor of freedom of expression.
On 7 january 2015, the IFJ, which represents 600 000 journalists in…
Beritan Canözer, a female journalist working for the news agency JINHA, was arrested in Diyarbakir (Turkey) on 19 December 2015 for allegedly “aiding a terrorist organisation”. Ms Canözer was first taken into custody on 16 December when covering a protest against curfews imposed by Turkish authorities in neighborhoods of the Sur district of Diyarbakir.
According to media reports, the state prosecutor based his evidence against the journalist on notes she took at the event, including slogans that were being chanted by protesters. On the other hand, officers from the Turkish counterterrorism units who arrested the journalist, claimed “reasonable doubt” due to her “agitated state”.…
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) in welcoming the arrest on 5 January of two suspects in connection with the murder in 2014 of three media workers of the TV channel Express News.
The Karachi police arrested Tanver Nadim and Squib Ahmad Pasha, reportedly affiliated with the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (a faction of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan) and claims that they had confessed the killing of the three media workers of Express News as well as police staffers in different attacks.
Technician Waqas Aziz Khan, driver Khalid Khan and security guard Ashraf Arian were shot dead as they sat in an…
DEPUTY GENERAL SECRETARY POST
Job Description
The Executive Committee of the International Federation of Journalists is seeking to appoint an IFJ Deputy General Secretary, based in Brussels.
He/she shall be responsible to the IFJ General Secretary as the Chief Executive officer of the Federation. The IFJ DGS must have the following skills:
1. Experience and considerable knowledge of trade unionism and trade unions, with proven ability to lead and inspire.
2. Experience and knowledge of journalism and broad issues connected with media and journalists worldwide.
3. Experience of leading campaigns and negotiating with institutions.
4. Knowledge and experience of…
Several organisations defending press freedom, including the IFJ and the EFJ, have alerted the Council of Europe about alarming moves in Poland to curb free press.
The organisations report that the Polish law on Public Service Media governance which has been hurriedly adopted by the Polish parliament proposes the removal of guarantees for the independence of public service TV (TVP) and Radio (PR), in breach of Council of Europe norms and of the mandate given by the Polish constitution to the independent broadcasting authority (KRRiT) to uphold the broad public interest in broadcasting.
The legislation gives a government minister exclusive powers to appoint and dismiss all members of the…
Local fixer and interpreter working for US-based media outlet Vice News Mohammed Rasool was relased on 5 January following 131 days of detention in a Turkish jail as “a protective measure”, media reported.
Vice News denounced that the media worker is still not free to leave the country and must report twice a week to a police station.
Rasool and his Vice News colleagues, British journalists Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury, were arrested on 27 August while filming clashes between the security forces and youth members of the outlawed pro-Kurdish PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) in the southeastern Turkish province of…
2015 was another deadly year for journalists, with at least 109 journalists and media staff killed in targeted killings, bomb attacks and cross-fire incidents, according to the annual list published on 31 December by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ).
The IFJ 2015 List names the 112 journalists and media staff killed across 30 countries, together with 3 who died of accidental deaths. It marks a small drop from last year when 118 killings and 17 accidents were recorded.
This year, the killing of journalists in the Americas topped the toll, at 27 dead. For the second year in a row, the Middle East comes second, with 25 deaths. Asia Pacific comes…
2015 has been another deadly year for journalists, with at least 112 journalists and media staff killed in targeted killings, bomb attacks and cross-fire incidents, according to the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ).
The IFJ 2015 List names the 112 journalists and media staff killed across 30 countries, together with 3 who died of accidental deaths. It marks a small drop from last year when 118 killings and 17 accidents were recorded.
This year, the killing of journalists in the Americas topped the toll, at 27 dead. For the second year in a row, the Middle East comes second, with 25 deaths. Asia Pacific comes third, with 21– a drop on…
