A car bomb exploded outside the offices of Televisa, Mexico’s largest media organization, in the early hours of Friday, local time.  The attack happened in the capital of Tamaulipas state, Ciudad Victoria, about 220 miles south of the Texas border. Although no one was injured in the blast, according to Carlos Loret de Mola, host […]

IPI’s Turkey National Committee on Wednesday joined other Turkish media organisations in the launch of a campaign targeting the use of prison sentences against journalists, and calling for those journalists currently imprisoned to be released. The organisations have all come together under the newly-created Turkish Journalists’ Association, in a united bid to improve press freedom […]

At least 25 journalists were held by the Yemeni army as they tried to attend a peace conference in the north of Yemen at the weekend, according to local reports. According to the Yemen Post, the journalists, from local, national and foreign press had been invited by tribal elders in the region to cover and […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) expressed concern today over the safety of Ukrainian journalist Vasyl Klymentyev, who has been missing in the country for 10 days. Klymentyev went missing on Wednesday 11 August after leaving home with an unidentified man, according to local police reports.  Ukrainian press freedom organisation, the Institute of Mass Information (IMI), […]