Tag: International Federation of Journalists

• Tuesday, January 25th 2022 - 09:24 UTC

  Assange may appeal his extradition before the UK's Supreme Court

  

  British magistrates Ian Burnett and Tim Holroyde Monday ruled there was a legal technicality in Julian Assange's case worth reviewing by the country's highest court and therefore cleared the way for the latter's extradition to the United States to be appealed against.

• Thursday, May 3rd 2012 - 21:49 UTC

  World Press Freedom Day: “One news provider killed every five days”

  

  Today Amy 3, World Press Freedom Day 2012, Reporters Without Borders condemns the furious pace of physical attacks on news providers and reports that a total of 21 journalists, and 6 citizen journalists have been killed since the start of 2012, many of them in war zones such as Somalia and Syria. This is a rate of one news provider killed every five days.

• Saturday, December 31st 2011 - 03:32 UTC

  More than 100 journalists killed in 2011; call on the UN for protection action

  

  More than 100 journalists or other media staffs were killed in 2011, up from last year's toll, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) said, calling on UN Secretary General Bank Ki-moon to act to help protect the profession.