2005-2014

Congolese authorities have expelled a Cameroonian journalist from the country. Elie Smith, who was attacked in his home in September, is the second journalist whom authorities have expelled from the Republic of Congo in a week, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Police on Friday went to Smith's office in the capital, Brazzaville, and ordered him to leave the country, citing...

The Nangarhar High Court in eastern Afghanistan has ordered the release of a Pakistani television journalist imprisoned in the country since April 22, 2014. Faizullah Khan, a reporter of ARY News TV channel, was freed on Sunday, September 28 and handed over to the Pakistani diplomat in Jalalabad city. Khan was expected to return to Pakistan Monday via the Torkham border where he is to be received...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have joined their affiliate, the National Union of Journalists, UK and Ireland (NUJ), to welcome a call by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media for a re-opening of the investigation into the murder of Sunday World journalist Martin O’Hagan in September 2001. On Friday Dunja Mijatović...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has welcomed the arrest of three suspects in connection to the disappearance of journalist Ahmed Rilwan Abdulla in the Maldives. The 28-year-old journalist with Minivan News has been missing since August 8, 2014, and there has been little progress in the subsequent investigation to locate him. Maldives Police Services on Sunday, September 28...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has strongly criticised the abuse of power by Hong Kong Police when they attacked journalists, students and citizens at pro-democracy demonstrations on September 27 and 28 and calls on the Hong Kong authorities to investigate the circumstances surrounding the attacks. More than 10,000 people rallied in support of genuine universal suffrage for the...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Maldives Journalist Association (MJA) have condemned the attack on the office of Minivan News on Thursday, September 25 in capital Male. According to Minivan News, a machete knife was lodged into the door of their office building in the afternoon shortly after a notorious gangster removed a CCTV camera from outside the...

The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), the Swiss professional association of journalists Impressum, Amnesty International, the University of Fribourg, Reporters Without Borders and Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) adopted a joint resolution at the end of the third Forum on the journalism September 24 in Lausanne. The resolution calls: Publishers to provide sufficient human and material resources...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called for the review of the new press law in Somalia which has been widely condemned as repressive and an attempt to silence independent reporting. The call was made during an Interactive Dialogue on the report of the Independent Expert, Bahame Tom Nyanduga, on the situation of human rights in Somalia which took place at the 27th Session of UN...

The Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned Congolese authorities' decision to expel a freelance journalist from the country and calls on them to allow her to enter the country and report freely. Before her expulsion, Sadio Kante reported receiving threats in connection with a series of stories she published on the attack of another journalist. Kante was arrested on Monday and held...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate All India Newspapers Employees Federation (AINEF) have condoled the death of a respected Kashmiri photojournalist on duty covering the floods in India’s Kashmir Valley and called on India’s media organisations to do more to protect workers sent into the field to cover disasters. Photojournalist Shafat Sidiq, 40, was on...