2005-2014

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is saddened and angered at news of the brutal death of Asomiya Pratidin correspondent and Morajhar Press Club president Md Muslimuddin on April 1. According to the Indian Journalists’ Union (IJU), an IFJ affiliate, Muslimuddin was attacked about 10pm while returning home on a bicycle near in Jagirod in India’s north-eastern state of Assam. An...

The secretary-general of the National Union of the Moroccan Press (SNPM) has been injured in an attack, SNPM said Wednesday. Mohammed Eddou Serraj was struck on the head with an iron bar by two people when leaving a meeting of the trade union in Rabat on Tuesday. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Thursday called on Moroccan authorities to investigate the attack on Serraj . “We...

An Iraqi reporter was seriously injured Wednesday in a landmine explosion in east Baghdad, while another was injured by a sniper in the southern city of Basra, according to the Iraqi Journalistic Freedoms Observatory (JFO). Haitham Ibrahim, a cameraman working for Iraqi al-Dayar satellite channel, had his leg amputated after suffering serious injuries in a landmine explosion in Talabiyah district...

The Zimbabwean police has arrested two unaccredited foreign journalists at a hotel in the capital Harare. The police issued a statement Thursday saying that the reporters had been covering the country's election without any accreditation. Pulitzer Prize-winner Barry Bearak, a New York Times correspondent based in Johannesburg was arrested Thursday evening. The identity of the other journalist has...

Russian journalist Yelena Tregubova, who wrote a book criticizing President Vladimir Putin for abusing freedom of speech, said she's been granted political asylum in the UK, according to Bloomberg News. The former Kremlin correspondent for Russia's Kommersant newspaper, who asked for asylum in London last year, said she's "very pleased'' with the decision in comments broadcast on Ekho Moskvy radio...

Attacks on journalists and media outlets have intensified in the Americas over the past six months. If court cases and judicial rulings against the media are anything to go by, apart increasing violence against journalists, the times are bad for journalists in the region. Journalists, in fact, continue to be killed in high numbers in the Americas and the vast majority of these murders go

A reporter and a correspondent of China Mining News, a newspaper supervised by the Ministry of Land and Resources, were sentenced to seven and six years in jail for taking bribes when covering news in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the official Chinese news agency Xinhua has eported. The man, surnamed Liu, 32, a reporter in the Shanxi provincial bureau of China Mining News, was...

Egypt has ordered the confiscation of a special edition of German magazine Der Spiegel about Islam that the government said insults the Muslim prophet Mohammed, Egypt's state news agency MENA said. Information Minister Anas el-Feki said the decision "comes in the context of defending Islamic values and standing firmly against those who try to insult the prophet, the Islamic faith, and religions...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has expressed shock at the attack on Radio Zafar, an independent radio station close to Kabul, on March 28. The Afghan Independent Journalists’ Association (AIJA), an IFJ associate, received reports from the head of the radio station that four unidentified gunmen illegally entered the station at 1:00 am and tied up two security guards, before fire...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has welcomed a decision by the Cebu Regional Trial Court (RTC) in the Philippines in finding John Lloyd Ortiz guilty of attempted murder of Cebu radio broadcaster Cirse “Choy” Torralba on June 8, 2004. According to the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), an IFJ affiliate, Judge Estela Alam Singco issued the 29-page decision on...