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05 October 2016
Welcome to the new issue of the IFJ Focus on Safety, a blog which provides highlights, news and in-depth analysis of safety-related events of conc [..]
UN Human Rights Council: End Continuing Intimidation and Attacks against Somali Journalists
29 September 2016
The UN should urge the Federal Government of Somalia and its regional administrations to end the continuing intimidation, harassment and attacks [..]
Missing South Sudanese Journalist Issac Vuni Found Dead
29 September 2016
The body of veteran South Sudanese journalist, Issac Vuni, missing with his brother since June after unknown gunmen took them away from his home i [..]
Russia: Investigative Journalist Grigory Pasko Assaulted in Siberia
29 September 2016
On 26 September, Grigory Pasko, Director of the international NGO Community of Investigative Journalists, was beaten in the Siberian city of Barn [..]
At least 2297 Journalists and Media Staff Have been Killed since 1990 : IFJ Report
03 February 2016
The International Federation of Journalists today published its 25 th report on journalists and media staff killed since 1990 . [..]
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UN Human Rights Council: End Continuing Intimidation and Attacks against Somali Journalists
29 September 2016
The UN should urge the Federal Government of Somalia and its regional administrations to end the continuing intimidation, harassment and attacks [..]
The body of veteran South Sudanese journalist, Issac Vuni, missing with his brother since June after unknown gunmen took them away from his home i [..]
Two men armed with pistols shot and killed Somali radio journalist Abdiasis Mohamed Ali, widely known as Haji, in Mogadishu on Tuesday, 27th Septe [..]
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Enforced Journalist Disappearances: IFJ Urges Action on 11 Cases of Missing Journalists in Asia Pacific
29 August 2016
On the eve of the eve of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances (August 30), the International Federation of Journa [..]
The French news agency AFP reported that the award-winning American journalist David Gilkey and his 38-year-old Afghan translator Zabihullah [..]
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joined its affiliate the National Union of Journalists (India) in condemning the murder of a t [..]
On 26 September, Grigory Pasko, Director of the international NGO Community of Investigative Journalists, was beaten in the Siberian city of Barn [..]
Reports said that a group of around 20 activists staged a rally yesterday in Kiev outside the headquarters of a private TV station, Inter TV, se [..]
News
Turkey: At least 23 Staff Members of Azadiya Welat Newspaper Detained in Police Raid
30 August 2016
According to media reports, police raided the main office of the Kurdish-language daily newspaper Azadiya Welat based in Diyarbakir on 28 Augus [..]
The Federation of Colombian Journalists (Fecolper), affiliated to the IFJ, has successfully petitioned the court in Colombia on behalf of Rodrig [..]
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FEPALC Seeks Protection for Journalists Labelled 'Traitors' in Dominican Republic
11 February 2015
The Federation of Journalists in Latin America and Caribbean (FEPALC) has accused the self-proclaimed Independent Patriotic Movement in the Dom [..]
56-year-old Nahed Hattar, ajournalist who wrote for the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar , was gunned down on the steps of the court in Amman’s ce [..]
Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi last week became the second head of state to sign the Declaration on Media Freedom in the Arab World. [..]
Fadil al-Garaawi , a photographer who was employed by Iraq's Interior Ministry elite forces and contributed to other news outlets, was killed by [..]
22 October 2016
Urgent. Iraqi TV journalist killed south of Mosul. The second in 2 days in this region. @abellanger49
21 October 2016
RT @FarahLamaane: Add your voice to free innocent Turkish journos. https://t.co/MjAINSGiZH
21 October 2016
RT @nevin_sungur: Dünyanın 4bir yanından meslektaşlarımız @IFJGlobal'ın başlattığı,Türkiye'de cezaevindeki gazeteciler için dayanışma eylem…
An Iraqi cameraman was killed on Saturday covering a military offensive to wrest the city of Mosul back from the Islamic State group, his channel [..]
A jihadist sniper killed an Iraqi journalist in Kirkuk Friday during clashes between the security forces and fighters from the Islamic State group, [..]
A British journalist arrested in Mogadishu while on a reporting assignment has been released by Somalian security forces, his employer Al-Jazeera [..]