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The Bangladeshi government should immediately revoke a new media policy that imposes draconian restrictions on media freedom, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday. Donors should make it clear to the Bangladeshi government that limits on freedom of expression that violate international law are unacceptable. The policy was published in the official government gazette on August 6, 2014. It contains...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has appealed for international action to improve protection of journalists covering events in Iraq and Syria following the brutal beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff. Following the execution of James Foley on August 19, the Jihadi group “The Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS)” yesterday posted video footage online showing...

Tuesday evening came the tragedy that another American journalist, Steven Sotloff, had allegedly been executed by the Islamic State (IS). Following the horrific murder of Mr. Sotloff, Mogens Blicher Bjerregård, the President of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has made an immediate appeal for an international investigation into the murder of the two journalists and demanded to bring...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have repeated their plea for all sides in Ukraine to respect the rights of journalists and ensure they are not intimidated or harmed following reports that Russian journalist, Andrei Stenin, has been found dead. Stenin, who worked for Russia’s state-run news agency, RIA Novosti, which is part of...

The International Press Institute (IPI) has called called for a full investigation into the fate of a Russian photojournalist whose death was confirmed on Wednesday nearly a month after he went missing in eastern Ukraine. Andrei Stenin was covering the conflict between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine for Russian media outlet Rossiya Segodnya when he went missing on...

Somali journalist Hassan Gessey, a radio director at the independent Dalsan Radio, is being held without charge by the National Intelligence and Security Agency after criticising a directive to restrict reporting on military operations, according to news reports and local journalists. Armed members of the security services arrested Hassan and Abubakar Moyhedin, a presenter and staff manager, at...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Macau Journalists Association in expressing its concern that the Macau Judiciary Police abandoned political neutrality. On August 29, two journalists were detained after their online media outlet published an image containing a police logo. The deputy publisher of Macau Concealers, Choi Chi-chio, and a journalism intern, Leung Ka-wai...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has written to the outgoing President of the Republic of Indonesia, Dr Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, calling on him to allow the immediate release of two French journalists detained in West Papua since last month. The request from IFJ Asia-Pacific called on Dr Yudhoyono to give a presidential order to release the pair as evidence of the country’s...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on the international community to hold those responsible for violence against journalists in Iraq accountable. In a statement to the special session on the abuses committed by the Islamic State and associated groups in Iraq convened by the United Nations Human Rights to day in Geneva, the IFJ highlighted the impunity for killings...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) have strongly condemned a series of brutal attacks and manhandling of journalists by state security forces and protesters during the ongoing political protests in Islamabad, Pakistan, today and on Saturday. The IFJ and the PFUJ also express concern over the escalating number of...