In June 2012, Asya Pencheva, a Bulgarian journalist working for the newspaper Utro, was charged with criminally defaming a local orphanage employee, Tsenka Blagoeva. The charges were related to a published story containing an interview with an orphanage employee who claimed that orphans had been abused. During the course of the interview Blagoeva’s name was […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the apparent murder of freelance American photojournalist James Foley by militants seeking to carve out an Islamic state in Iraq and Syria. A video posted online yesterday purported to depict an extremist from the Islamic State beheading Foley, who disappeared in Syria in November 2012 while reporting on […]

The International Press Institute (IPI)’s North American Committee yesterday decried as “horrific and unacceptable” the treatment of journalists covering protests against the fatal shooting of an unarmed man by police in Missouri. Numerous domestic and foreign journalists have reported that law enforcement officers in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson have threatened and arrested journalists […]

Lithuanian journalist Gintaras Visockas is no stranger to covering controversial topics. A long-time journalist and author, Visockas covered the Lithuanian Defence Ministry and NATO operations for almost five years for the newspaper Vastieciu Laikrastis. “During this time, I had conducted hundreds of interviews with Lithuanian and foreign generals,” Visockas told IPI in a recent email […]