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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.
NUJ condemns sentencing of Turkish journalist Pelin Ünker
9 January 2019: The member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has been sent to prison for her work on the Paradise Papers investigation into offshore tax havens.
Turkey jails more union leaders & journalists
10 December 2018: Heavy sentences were pronounced against five journalists and union leader last week
