The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate, the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA), and the Ming Pao Union in condemning a senior executive of Ming Pao newspaper for deleting, without consultation, key words from headlines about the July 1 rally for democracy. According to a statement by the Ming Pao Union, the editorial director of Ming Pao, Lui Ka-Ming, bypassed...
The repressive effects of Ecuador’s one-year-old communications law can be seen in a regulator’s decision to fine a newspaper just days after the daily said the law was the reason it was shuttering its print edition, the International Press Institute (IPI) said Tuesday. Ecuador’s Communication and Information Superintendence Office (SUPERCOM), which the communications law created to monitor...
The Executive Committee of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), meeting in Brussels on 28 and 29 June, has demanded an end to attacks against journalists in Venezuela and called on the government and media companies in the country to ensure the printing and circulation of newspapers in the country is carried out. The IFJ Executive Committee has issued the following statement:-...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) in strongly condemning the bomb attack on the home of a journalist in Peshawar, Pakistan on July 2, 2014 – the third attack on the journalist’s home this year. This week’s incident saw unidentified attackers placed a bomb in the home of Jamshed Baghwan, the bureau chief of...
The Committee to Protect Journalists is holding Nigerian authorities responsible for the safety of an editor who was seized by armed men on Tuesday and has not been seen since. Thomas Thomas, editor of the thrice-weekly Global Concord newspaper, was seized by three men in plainclothes in Uyo, the capital of the oil-rich state of Akwa Ibom, according to news reports. The journalist was handcuffed...
Iraq’s new media guidelines are so vague as to be wide open to abuse. The guidelines unjustifiably restrict freedom of the press, including by requiring pro-governmental coverage. The government-run Communications and Media Commission (CMC) issued the “mandatory†guidelines on June 18, 2014, to regulate media “during the war on terror.†The guidelines demand that media avoid making...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate, the Taiwan Journalists Association (TJA), in condemning the police of New Taipei City for abusing their powers by intercepting and threatening a journalist who was doing his job. On June 26, Lin Yu-you, a journalist for New Talk online media, was obstructed, threatened and jostled by police when he was trying to report on the...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) in condemning the detention of 45 journalists in the capital city of Kathmandu by Nepal Police on July 1, 2014. Police arrested the journalists from the premises of the Ministry of Finance where they were staging a peaceful sit-in to demand the government pay for public welfare advertisements. The...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Bangladesh Manobadhikar Sangbadik Forum (BMSF) in condemning the alleged death threat made by a student leader to a journalist on June 28, 2014. Amzad Hossain Shimul, a staff reporter at the Daily Amader Shomoy at Rajshahi, western Bangladesh, was allegedly threatened by Tawhid Al Hossain, also known as Tuhin, the general secretary of the...
The Executive Committee of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), meeting in Brussels on 28 and 29 June, has called for the Moroccan government to promote press freedom and protect journalists in the country, rather than attacking and undermining the demeanor of women journalists and the clothing they wear. The call has been made following the report presented to the committee by the...
