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Women journalists imprisoned during protests in Ankara
7 January 2021: Unions condemn the violence inflicted on colleagues and call for their immediate release
IFJ mourns 42 media workers killed in 2020
10 December 2020: IFJ publishes annual killed list including numbers in jail globally, with 30 year overview and analysis
Journalists sentenced to heavy jail terms in Iran
29 August 2019: Global journalists' federation offers support to Marzieh Amiri, Masoud Kazemi and Kiumars Marzban
Sudan's Sadiq Ibrahim Ahmed has been released
30 July 2019: The IFJ welcomed his release but demanded the military explain the reasons for his arrest
NUJ demands release of journalists’ union leader seized by Sudanese military
25 July 2019: Sadiq Rizaigi, the head of the Sudanese Journalists Union, must be released immediately
Global Media Freedom Conference: new pledges not credible without action, say press freedom groups
10 July 2019: Press groups say we need no more empty pledges: "We need action."
Ayşe Düzkan released from prison
25 June 2019: The jailed journalist ‘adopted’ by the NUJ has been released from Bakirkoy prison in Istanbul.
Unions demand release of tortured journalists in Yemen
30 April 2019: For years journalists in Yemen have been denied basic rights in detention and have faced treatment that is contrary to human dignity
NUJ condemns Turkish authorities over detention of British journalist
1 April 2019: The Morning Star's international editor Steve Sweeney was arrested and deported from Turkey when he entered the country to cover the local elections.
NUJ condemns imprisonment of Turkish journalists
29 January 2019: Ayşe Düzkan and her journalist colleagues, sentenced last year for “propagandising for a terrorist organisation”, have been sent to prison. The union is lobbying for their release.
