The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed concern that the company that publishes Polish daily Rzeczpospolita could be dissolved, leaving the newspaper in state hands. Polish state-owned Państwowe Przedsiębiorstwo Wydawnicze Rzeczpospolita (PW) initiated proceedings last October in a Warsaw court to liquidate publisher Presspublica SA, in which it holds 49 percent of control. PW pointed […]

UPDATE 4 April 2011: Reuters reporters Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Khaled al-Hariri have been freed in Syria, the news agency reported. In another update, in Libya, one of four Al-Jazeera correspondents who are in detention, Lotfi Al Masoudi, has been freed, the network reported on its website on 3 April. Al Masoudi was originally detained with his colleagues […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today denounced Belarusian authorities’ search of the apartment of Polish-Belarusian journalist Andrzej Poczobut, and their seizure of a computer and other items. The search Tuesday morning followed news Monday that the state prosecutor in Grodno opened a criminal investigation against Poczobut, a correspondent with Polish daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, for […]

Two Mexican journalists have been killed in Monterrey in the northern state of Nuevo León in a murder that appears to be tied to organized crime. José Luis “La Gata” Cerda Meléndez, 33, host of the “El Club” program on national TV channel Televisa, and Luis Emanuel Ruíz Carrillo, 20, a reporter for daily “La […]