Based on information provided to IPI, on 15 June, vendors working for The Post newspaper in Lusaka, Zambia, were apparently attacked by a group allegedly close to the ruling Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD). During the attack, the group, some of whom wielded machetes and pangas, stole around 2,000 copies of the 15 June edition of The Post. […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in South East Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), is alarmed at the recent attack by the Mayor of Korca on a journalist in Albania. According to information before SEEMO, on 26 June, Robert […]

Based on information provided to the International Press Institute (IPI), on 6 July, Judge Thomas F. Hogan, sitting at the Federal District Court in Washington, DC, jailed New York Times reporter Judith Miller. The Judge’s decision follows his judgement at an October 2004 hearing that Miller and Time magazine journalist, Matthew Cooper, were guilty of […]

According to news reports, on 5 July, special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald filed legal documents at the court in preparation for a hearing today at the Federal District Court in Washington, DC. The hearing will decide whether Time journalist Matthew Cooper and New York Times journalist Judith Miller are to be jailed for civil contempt […]