The International Press Institute (IPI) today mourned the passing away of Russian journalist Mikhail Beketov and called on authorities to bring to justice those responsible for the vicious 2008 beating that led to his death on Monday. News reports said that scarring in Beketov’s throat from treatment following the attack – which took his ability […]

After 204 days in prison and two hunger strikes, Cuban journalist Calixto Ramón Martínez Arias was released yesterday following months of lobbying by the International Press Institute (IPI) and other media and human rights organisations. “Victory,” tweeted Roberto J. Guerra, director of the independent news agency Hablemos Press, where Martínez had worked prior to his […]

Tony Amokeodo and Chibuzo Ukaibe, who were among four journalists detained by Nigerian police on Monday, were released on Tuesday evening. They were allegedly being held for questioning over the source of a document that their newspaper, Leadership, published last week, which the newspaper said was a leaked directive from Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan. According […]

The Nigeria National Commmittee of the International Press Institute (IPI), the global platform for a free press, notes with concern the continuing travails of the journalists working with the Leadership newspapers in Nigeria. Although the police released the journalists after two unwarranted, agonizing nights in detention, we see nothing to celebrate in their release because […]