The International Press Institute (IPI) urges the authorities to conduct a transparent investigation into recent attacks against, and harassment of, journalists in the Mexican state of Chiapas, in the southern part of the country. Jacobo Elnecavé Luttman, 31, has been in critical condition for almost three weeks after six individuals brutally beat him on 19 […]

Andrzej Poczobut – Belarusian correspondent of Gazeta Wyborcza, a leading Polish daily newspaper, and a Polish-Belarusian minority activist – was sentenced Tuesday on criminal charges that he insulted Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko. A closed-door court in Grodno, Belarus, sentenced Poczobut to three years imprisonment, but suspended the sentence and freed the journalist from jail, where […]

Twelve media freedom organisations, including the International Press Institute,  cosigned, today, a joint statement calling on the Burmese government to put a stop to its harassment and prosecution of journalists and calling on the release of the Democratic Voice of Burma’s Video Journalist. Free the Democratic Voice of Burma’s Video Journalists www.freeburmavj.org Despite pledges by […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organization (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), today condemned the second shooting attack this year on journalists working for Afrika, a Turkish-language newspaper in Northern Cyprus. An armed man came to Afrika’s office on 3 July looking for its editor-in-chief, Sener Levent, and fired a shot […]