The United States military released Reuters photographer Ibrahim Jassam Mohammed on Wednesday after detaining him at Camp Cropper in Iraq for 17 months without charge. “We welcome the decision to release Jassam,” said IPI Director David Dadge. “However, we remain concerned by the fact that the US military felt it acceptable to hold him for […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) is co-sponsoring a panel discussion and ‘Webinar’ on the erosion of a free press, hosted by the University of Missouri’s Reynolds Institute of Journalism. Other sponsors are the National Freedom of Information Coalition and the American Society of News Editors. The session will feature the following speakers: Milton Coleman, deputy […]

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) strongly condemns the attack on TV SKAT in Bulgaria. On 3 February 2010, the premises of the Varna office of Bulgarian TV SKAT were attacked with a Molotov cocktail, following a similar attack on the head office of TV SKAT in Burgas just one day previously, on 2 February […]

The Office of the President of Ghana is giving “serious attention” to allegations that Ghanaian journalist James Donkor was mistreated by police, following a 19 November IPI letter addressed to H.E. President John Evans Atta Mills. In a 28 January letter to IPI, the Head of Mission of the Ghanaian Embassy in Vienna, H.E. Mr. […]