The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed news that Ukraine’s state prosecutor has opened a criminal case against former President Leonid Kuchma for his alleged involvement in organising the 2000 murder of opposition journalist Georgiy Gongadze. Reuters reported that First Deputy Prosecutor General Renat Kuzmin announced the formal opening of a case against Kuchma at […]

IPI Director Alison Bethel McKenzie and IPI Press Freedom Manager Anthony Mills on Friday wrapped up an IPI emergency visit to IPI’s Turkish National Committee in Istanbul, following the recent wave of arrests of Turkish journalists, including IPI World Press Freedom Hero Nedim Şener. Those recently arrested join dozens of other journalists in prison in […]

The devastating earthquake and tsunami, which hit Japan on 11 March 2011, caused major difficulties for several newspapers along the eastern coast of the Tohoku region, which includes the prefectures of Aomori, Akita, Iwate, Yamagata, Miyagi and Fukushima. Newspaper companies have suffered water and fuel outages and are currently utilizing back-up electric-power generators or have […]

Four journalists from The New York Times who were reporting on the Libyan unrest have gone missing, the newspaper reported on Wednesday, 16 March. The Libyan government has said it will help locate the journalists, and has given its assurance that if the journalists were captured, they would be released unharmed, Bill Keller, executive editor […]