The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joined its affiliate National Union of Journalists in the Philippines (NUJP) in condemning recent threats made to a radio broadcaster from Maramag town, in Bukidnon in the Northern Mindanao region of the Philippines. Mars Downyben Medina, a programme director at Radyo Abante-Maramag and host of the daily morning news programme and a weekly...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined its affiliate National Union of Journalists in the Philippines (NUJP) in condemning the action by the Quezon City Jail in refusing entry to three journalists to the make-shift court where the trial for the 196 accused in the Ampatuan Massacre case is currently being held. Journalists Mike Firalde of The Philippine Star; Evan Orias of...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have joined calls for a thorough and immediate investigation to be carried out into an attack on a BBC news team in the southern Russian city of Astrakhan. According to the BBC, the team was in the city to investigate reports of Russian servicemen being killed near the border with Ukraine. They were...
The Committee to Protect Journalists has welcomed the release on bail of two journalists in Egypt and calls on authorities to free the 11 other journalists still behind bars. The move comes days before Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is set to address the United Nations General Assembly in New York, according to news reports. "We are relieved that these two journalists are free. Egyptian...
In a welcome development in Bolivia last month, a judge ruled that criminal charges of espionage, complicity and disclosure of state secrets against two journalists be dropped and the case be moved to the country’s Press Tribunal. On May 7, Ricardo Aguilar, a journalist with the Bolivian daily La Razón, and Claudia Benavente, the newspaper’s editor in chief, were called to testify at a court...
The Committee to Protect Journalists has called on the Qatari government to abolish parts of a restrictive cybercrime law that passed this week, despite assurances from its prime minister last year that the legislation would not restrict freedom of expression, which is protected under the Qatari constitution. The broad language of the Anti-Cybercrime Law could be used to restrict press freedom and...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Afghanistan Independent Journalists Association (AIJA) have condemned the brutal murder of a female journalist in the city of Mazar-e-Sharif in the Balkh province of northern Afghanistan on September 16. An unidentified man repeatedly stabbed Palwasha Tokhi Miranzai, a journalist who worked for the Bayan-e-Shamal news network from 2008 to...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the media blackout that started September 15 ahead of the Fijian elections on September 17, and said the media in Fiji must be free to report the next few critical days if the interim government is serious about the country’s return to a democratically-elected system of government. The media blackout, which bans all political...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called on the Bahraini Minister of State for Information Affairs to show her commitment to the country’s media freedom and independence and drop her complaint against the respected journalist, Isa Alshaijj. The IFJ has also called on the Bahraini public prosecutor, not to press defamation charges against the journalist which would result in a...
The image of Botswana as a bastion of press freedom and good governance has been dented following the arrest of an editor of a privately owned newspaper, and the seizure of his computer. A tweet from a reporter in Botswana on Tuesday morning alerted the Committee to Protect Journalists to the arrest: "Editor Outsa Mokone arrested and veteran reporter Edgar Tsimane flees Botswana says he fears for...
