The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the attack on the offices of news agency Agence France Presse (AFP) in Jordan’s capital, Amman, on 15 June. A group of 10 unidentified attackers broke into the premises and destroyed furniture and equipment, AFP reported. “Ten men armed with sticks broke into the office and started to […]

Violence escalated this week against journalists in Pakistan with the deaths of one journalist in a bomb blast in Peshawar. Asfandyar Abid Naveed, a journalist with Akhbar-e-Khyber, was killed in the blasts, which occurred on Saturday at a market in the capital of the Khyber Pankhtunkhwa region of Pakistan. Two smaller blasts, one at a […]

The Israeli Palestinian Journalists’ Forum of the International Press Institute (IPI) began today following an opening dinner and award ceremony on Tuesday night at Vienna’s historic Hofburg Palace. The opening dinner was marked by the presentation of IPI’s first Dialogue for Press Freedom Award to Turkish journalist and WINPEACE co-founder Zeynep Oral. Handing over the […]

Turkish journalist Zeynep Oral, the first recipient of the International Press Institute (IPI)’s “Press Freedom Dialogue Award”, is the co-founder, together with Margarita Papandreou of Greece, of the Women’s Initiative for Peace, or WINPEACE. Founded in January 1996, following the December 1995 Imia Island Crisis which brought Greece and Turkey to the brink of a […]