News and Press Releases

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

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

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…

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…

On June 18, Khyber News journalist and former President of the Landi Kotal Press Club Khalil Jibran was fatally shot while travelling home from a…

Journalist Ali Sina Khodayar was reportedly arrested in Kunduz, while news outlet Tamadon TV was temporarily shut down due to Taliban claims it was…

Vietnamese authorities announced on June 7 that journalist and writer Huy Duc had been arrested a week prior for ‘abusing democratic freedoms’, linked…

India’s journalists have faced assaults, attacks, and threats over the past few weeks, with India’s recent elections and Israel’s war on Gaza…

As Hong Kong police crackdown on commemorations of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, journalists and media workers have faced obstruction and…

[UPDATED 04.06.2024] At least 109 Palestinian journalists and media workers have been killed, several have been injured and others are missing during…

Assaults have rocked Bangladesh’s media community, with journalist Aklakur Rahman Akash suffering serious damage to his eye following an assault near…

The Punjab Provincial Assembly has passed the Punjab Defamation Act of 2024 despite protests from observing journalists and opposition politicians and…

The owner of a Tamil newspaper allegedly threatened several journalists in Tamil language media, with a local politician reportedly issuing legal…