2005-2014

A year after dozens of Jordan’s Internet news sites were blocked by the government for failing to obtain a licence, a report published Wednesday by the International Press Institute (IPI) called on the authorities to rescind the law and take steps to reform other legislation that threatens press freedom. Jordanian officials on June 1, 2013 blocked more than 200 websites for violating a law...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the actions of Israeli soldiers who forced their way into the Ramallah headquarters of the press, publishing and distribution company, al Ayyam, this morning, Wednesday 28 May. According to IFJ affiliate, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS), the Israeli forces informed the managment of the company that it would halt the...

A Bolivian judge earlier this month ordered a journalist and editor in chief to reveal the sources behind a recent investigative article, despite provisions guaranteeing source confidentiality in the country’s press law. “A source has never been revealed in this country,” said Juan León Cornejo, president of the National Press Association (ANP). “We would not know what to do if this were...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today strongly condemned the additional seven days detention time given to police by an Ethiopian court to investigate the case of the journalist, Elias Nigatu, who has been held since 26 May. According to the IFJ affiliate, the Ethiopian National Journalists Union (ENJU), Nigatu, who writes for Enku magazine, was arrested for publishing a...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has demanded that all parties involved in the civil war in Libya respect the rights and freedom of journalists following the horrific murder of the prominent journalist, Meftah Bouzid. According to media reports, Bouzid, who was known for his fierce criticism of Islamist militias in Libya, was shot dead in the city of Benghazi yesterday, Monday 26...

Libya’s General Prosecutor should immediately order an impartial and comprehensive investigation into the killing of a prominent editor-in-chief and hold those responsible to account. Miftah Bouzeid, editor in chief of Burniq newspaper, was shot dead in Benghazi on May 26, 2014. The murder of Bouzeid is the second killing of a journalist in Libya this year, the first died in February, during...

The International Federation of Journalists (IF) expresses growing concern over the treatment of local and international media in Thailand in the six days since martial law was imposed by the military and calls for the immediate release of media detained in recent days. Along with four media groups, the IFJ has called for the military to respect the role of the media in Thailand and allow free...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is saddened to report the brutal murder of a Digos City radio broadcaster in the Philippines this morning, May 23, and has called on the Aquino government to take much-needed decisive action to aim at curbing the disturbing number of attacks directed at the broadcast media. According to the IFJ affiliate the National Union of Journalists of the...

Egypt’s new president should hit the reset button on press freedom by immediately dropping charges against 16 journalists accused of sedition, the International Press Institute (IPI) said Monday. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the military commander who helped engineer last year’s putsch against a democratically elected government, faces only token opposition in this week’s election and seems...

Ukrainian authorities should immediately release a journalist apparently forcibly disappeared since May 10, 2014 by government military forces in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, Human Rights Watch said today. Since the arrest of Artyom Larionov, a videographer from Donetsk working for anti-Kiev forces, the government has provided no information as to his fate or whereabouts. The authorities...