The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), is disappointed with a Serbian court’s decision to sentence to only ten months house arrest a person who beat up B92 TV cameraman Bosko Brankovic, breaking his leg, injuring his shoulder and destroying his camera. The light sentence has […]

IPI/IFEX-TMG – 10 May 2011 – Decades of government-imposed restrictions on freedom of speech and freedom of media through censorship, imprisonments, and pressure on media outlets and journalists have left the Tunisian media landscape in urgent need of reform, with the promotion of freedom of expression as a founding cornerstone, say members of the International […]

Journalist Yakhya Magomedov of the Russian Islamic newspaper As-Salam was killed on 8 May in the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, Russian media outlet RIA Novosti reported. He was shot four times near the northern city of Khasavyurt at around 22:30, media freedom observers reported. His death follows an attack on 5 May against Magomed […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the murder of Honduran TV news host Francisco Medina, the sixteenth journalist killed in the country since the beginning of 2009. Gunmen on a motorcycle shot Medina, 35, early Tuesday morning outside of his home in Morazon north of the capital of Tegucigalpa. Reports said the attackers followed […]