The Hanoi’s People’s Court sentenced exiled journalist Doan Bao Chau to seven years in prison in absentia, and an additional five-year probationary period, for anti-state reporting under Article 117 o...

A senior journalist for Papua New Guinean daily The National was allegedly attacked by five correctional service officers in Port Moresby as she attempted to enter the facility to attend a media confe...

Journalists Pheap Phara and Phon Sopheap have appealed fourteen-year prison sentences after being convicted of treason for reporting on the Cambodia-Thailand border conflict on December 17, 2025. The ...

Pakistani digital journalist and YouTube host Sohrab Barkat has remained in pre-trial detention for over two and a half months following his arrest in late 2025. The International Federation of Journa...

Journalist unions unified today with a joint call to Bangladesh’s incoming political leaders to respect and restore press freedom in the country following its much-anticipated national election tomorr...

The widely condemned Maldivian ‘Media and Broadcasting Commission Act’, passed in September 2025, has been used for the first time to remove editorial content, amid increasing harassment and violent t...

Journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio has been found guilty of financing terrorism and sentenced to at least 12 years in prison, after spending nearly six years behind bars in pre-trial detention. The Intern...

The IFJ Regional Bulletin for January 2026 spotlights ongoing legal media reforms in the Pacific region including Australia and Samoa; Hong Kong’s media censorship following the devastating Wong Fuk C...

Two new legislative amendments passed by Vietnam’s parliament will pose significant safety risks for journalists, with media outlets forced to disclose their sources and further controls on content th...

Dawn Media Group formally closed its Urdu digital platform DawnNews.tv on December 1, terminating the channel’s 12 media workers. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate, t...

Chinese independent writer, photojournalist and filmmaker Du Bin has remained incarcerated by the Chinese authorities since being taken from his Beijing home on October 15. The International Federatio...

Two journalists were assaulted by a group of attackers on November 28 while investigating a corruption case at a the Regional Transport Office (RTO) in Madhya Pradesh in Central India. The Internation...

A Sri Lankan minister has directed police to use emergency powers against individuals criticising the country’s president amid the country’s worst natural disaster in decades. The International Federa...

Journalist Do Van Nga has been charged with disseminating anti-state propaganda on November 17 after disappearing following his arrival at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport earlier...

The IFJ Asia Pacific Regional Bulletin for December 2025 highlights the IFJ's global campaign for the elimination of violence against women in media; the ban of Samoa's leading newspaper from governme...

India’s controversial Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 came into effect on November 14 amid backlash from critics who say the law will increase government surveillance, restrict freed...

In a landmark decision, Mongolia’s Constitutional Court ruled on November 25 that a controversial provision on ‘false information’ in the country’s Criminal Code violated its constitution. The Interna...

In a case of transnational repression, Australian journalist Murray Hunter was indicted on criminal defamation charges by Bangkok’s Criminal Court in Thailand on November 17 at the request of Malaysia...

Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) police raided the Jammu office of the Kashmir Times on November 20, accusing the newspaper of promoting secessionist ideology. The International Federation of Journalists (...

Malaysia’s Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, called on the country’s media companies to provide fair pay and just financial compensation for journalists’ professional work during a meeting with Sabah med...

Leading Samoan independent newspaper, The Samoa Observer, was formally banned from government press conferences by the country’s prime minister on November 17, in response to alleged misleading covera...

Beijing’s High Court has dismissed an appeal to overturn a seven-year sentence for journalist Dong Yuyu, who has been jailed since 2022 on charges of espionage. The International Federation of Journal...

Myanmar’s military filed legal charges against the exile-run Assistance Association for Myanmar-based Independent Journalists (AAMIJ) News on November 10 under the junta’s ‘election protection law’, a...

A court has dismissed two cases, including a charge of murder, against jailed community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio, with remaining allegations of terrorism financing and illegal possession of fire...

Four suspects were arrested on October 27 for the killing of journalist and anchor Imtiaz Mir, who died on September 28 after sustaining critical injuries in a gun attack in Karachi the week prior. Th...

In a landmark press freedom case, independent media outlet Tempo awaits a court verdict in a lawsuit brought by Indonesia’s Agriculture Minister over an allegedly damaging report on the country’s rice...

Enough is Enough – End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists in Cambodia -

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The IFJ Asia Pacific Regional Bulletin for November 2025 highlights human rights defender Sandya Ekneligoda’s flight to end impunity, the killing of Filipino radio broadcaster Noel Bellen Samar, conti...

The IFJ's Pakistan Media Labour Rights Bulletin aims to highlight key cases and success stories, communicate industry developments and review progress on labour rights reform action in Pakistan.

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and more than 300 global union federations, trade unions, civil society, and human rights organisations from South East Asia and around the world on O...

Filipino radio broadcaster Noel Bellen Samar died on October 21 after sustaining gunshot wounds in a shooting attack a day earlier on October 20 in the northern island of Luzon. The International Fede...

From 6 to 8 October, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) begins public hearings on the request for an advisory opinion on the right to strike. In 2023, the Governing Body of the ILO referred the ...

Afghan media worker Abdul Zahir Safi was killed in a civilian area of Kabul after an alleged airstrike on the city on October 16. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Afghan Indep...

The five journalists, including two Australians, died while doing their jobs. Despite half a century of evidence and lobbying, justice remains elusive.

Afghan journalist Abdul Ghafoor Abed was killed and another journalist was wounded during cross-border fighting between Taliban and Pakistani forces on October 14. The International Federation of Jour...

The IFJ South Asia Media Bulletin for October 2025 highlights the Sri Lankan government’s unfulfilled pledge of media reform; the Federation of Asia-Pacific Journalists’ Triennial Congress; an interne...

Zionist lawsuits against Mary Kostakidis and Sydney Uni academics John Keane and Nick Riemer are a mighty test case for free speech in Australia

The Australian is known for his critical writings on Malaysian politics.

The IFJ Asia Pacific Regional Bulletin for October 2025 highlights the prolonged incarceration of two women journalists, Frenchie Mae Cumpio and Zhang Zhan; two Cambodian journalists charged with trea...

Justice Sunil Chaudhary directed the civil judge (trial court) to hear the case of Thakurta and along with other defendants on September 26 at 2 pm.

Journalist Mu Dra was abducted from her home in Myanmar’s Rakhine state by the rebel Arakan Army on September 20. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate, the Myanmar Jou...

Indonesia’s democracy is in decline as the media community faces violence, censorship and mass job layoffs. With the media sector under increasing pressure, it is now more critical than ever to have c...

The judge ordered ABC to pay a fine of $150,000 for unlawfully sacking journalist and presenter Antoinette Lattouf for reasons including her political opinions.

Zhang Zhan Sentenced to Four Years for COVID-19 Reporting Citizen Journalist Rearrested a Year After Release Faces Same Charges as Prior Term

A pro-democracy think-tank has recently stated, based on research, that press freedom, which had declined significantly in the past five years, is now at its lowest in the last 50 years. It appears, i...

He also pushed for the media wage board implementation

The former lawyer was outspoken about China’s response to the Covid pandemic