An International Press Institute (IPI) advocacy mission arrived in Russia on Tuesday, 29 September 2009. During the five-day mission, the delegates will visit the cities of Moscow, Kchimki and Tomsk, to meet with local media and government officials and discuss the state of media freedom in the country. The IPI mission to Russia includes: IPI […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) strongly condemns the kidnapping and beating of journalist Slim Boukhdhir on Wednesday night in Tunis and the arrest on Thursday morning of renowned journalist and government critic Taoufik Ben Brik. Ben Brik had previously endured detentions and been prevented from travelling out of Tunisia. He was arrested for allegedly attacking […]

Bangladeshi journalist F.M. Masum, a staff correspondent of the daily New Age in Bangladesh, was on Thursday (22 Oct.) taken from his residence by members of the country’s infamous Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and was then held incommunicado, and brutally tortured, for over ten hours, before being released. Masum, who had injury marks all over […]

King Abdullah Bin-Abd-al-Aziz Al Saud pardoned Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (LBC) fixer and production assistant Rosana Al-Yami on Monday, 26 October after she had been sentenced this past weekend to 60 lashes. According to Reuters, Al-Yami was punished on the grounds that LBC was not licensed to operate in Saudi Arabia. Rosana Al-Yami, 22, was the […]