As the “Occupy Wall Street” protests have spread across the United States, so too have arrests of journalists seeking to cover the demonstrations. The intimidation and harassment of reporters by authorities has not been confined to widely-publicised hotspots such as New York and Oakland, Calif., but has moved into the heartland, with recent arrests of […]

Turkish author and investigative reporter Nedim Şener has been convicted of no crime, but next week he will spend his 250th day in prison. Şener, a journalist with the Milliyet newspaper who was named an International Press Institute (IPI) World Press Freedom Hero in 2010 following the publication of his book on the 2007 murder […]

Swedish journalists Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye were on Thursday acquitted in an Ethiopian court of conspiring to commit acts of terrorism, but still face charges of supporting the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), which Ethiopia deems a terrorist organization, and of entering the country illegally, news reports said. The reporter pair had already admitted […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of publishers, editors, and leading journalists, joins the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) in condemning the blockade of newspapers in Kerala orchestrated by the trade-union wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)]. CPI(M) was apparently angered at reports by the newspapers. For the past 13 days, […]