International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)

Non-uniformed police attacked several Hong Kong-based journalists who were trying to interview a human rights lawyer in Beijing.

The report documents the state of press freedom across South Asia.

RSF condemns the attack as an attempt to intimidate the editor, who had recently written about unregulated limestone mining and the culture of violence and impunity in northeast India

Sandeep Sharma and Naveen Nishchal were both killed in separate vehicle incidents.

The Court found that the journalists’ rights to liberty, security and free expression had been violated and that the two men should be released.

“We call on the Iraqi authorities to investigate these attacks against the press and respect the right of journalists to report freely and safely,” said IFJ.

Journalists from the opposition TV channel Raajje TV were arrested for protest coverage.

The Malaysian government needs to take immediate steps to repeal legislation that is crippling the media.

A new survey shows IFJ affiliates at the forefront of a drive to tackle gender-based violence and harassment at work.

In a joint open letter to Mr Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, organisations urge EC officials to ensure that police investigations are full, thorough and independent in Slovakia and Malta.

The photojournalist was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy and instigating stone pelting at security personnel.

The media in Maldives are enduring “unprecedented restrictions” as the country continues to be under a state of emergency.

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has denounced the multiple media freedom violations in the Iraqi Kurdistan region, documented in a new report by IFJ affiliate the Kurdistan Journalists Syndicate.

From the optimism and hope for China leading up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, where a more free and open media was promised by China’s leaders to the world, the IFJ reports that reality on the ground is harshly different, with a continuing and disturbing decline in media freedoms in both Mainland China and Hong Kong.

The bill proposes life sentences for spreading negative propaganda against the Liberation War or the Father of the Nation.

They face up to 14 years imprisonment over their coverage of the Rohingya crisis.