Syria’s Air Force Intelligence has decided to try Syrian human rights lawyer Mazen Darwish, head of the Damascus-based Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), behind closed doors before a Military Field Court, Reuters reported yesterday. The news agency said that the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) expressed concern that Darwish might […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on authorities in Kazakhstan to investigate an attack that reportedly left a journalist in the capital city of Astana hospitalised with severe injuries. Unknown assailants beat Ularbek Baitailaq– a Kazakh National Archive employee, who has contributed articles to the opposition Dat weekly, the Chetvyortaya vlast (Fourth Estate) newspaper […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), today condemned the detention and alleged hitting of Dimitri Popota, a journalist with the Athens–based weekly Protothema. On Aug. 7, Popota was covering the transfer of a high-profile rape suspect from the police station to the court house on […]

An Istanbul court accepted an indictment that reportedly charges Turkish journalist Ahmet Şık with being a member of a “terrorist organisation” and with threatening and defaming the judiciary, Reuters reported. The news agency said that Şık – who was released March 12 after more than one year in prison, but who still faces trial and […]