The International Press Institute (IPI) carried out a four-day visit to the Palestinian Authority (PA) from 4-7 June, 2007 to advocate for the release of kidnapped BBC journalist Alan Johnston. While in Ramallah, the mission met with President Mahmoud Abbas, the President’s Chief of Staff Rafiq Husseini, Deputy Prime Minister Azzam Al Ahmed, Minister of […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) will send a high-level delegation to the Palestinian Authority from 4 to 6 June 2007 to advocate for the release of kidnapped BBC journalist Alan Johnston. Johnston was abducted by masked gunmen while on his way home from his office in Gaza City on the evening of 12 March. At […]

According to information provided to the International Press Institute (IPI), the pressure on the KTK television station and the Karavan weekly newspaper has increased in recent days with the authorities arresting two media executives and a journalist. On 25 May, the authorities arrested Ruslan Zhemkov and Adil Sharipov, the Executive Director and General Administrator of […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 120 countries, strongly condemns the shutdown of the privately owned Radio Caracas Television (RCTV), Venezuela’s oldest commercial television station, which was closed at midnight, 27 May 2007. RCTV’s signal was immediately transferred to a new state-backed broadcasting company, […]