Egyptian security forces should immediately release the Cairo bureau chief of Turkey’s İhlas news agency and a Turkish television correspondent who was arrested last weekend, the International Press Institute and its Turkish National Committee said today. Tahir Osman Hamde, 40, was seized by the Egyptian authorities on August 20 and security forces raided his office […]

The International Press Institute today urged Egyptian security forces and supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi to refrain from targeting journalists amid reports that at least two media workers were killed and many more wounded during violent clashes between the authorities and the opposition. Michael Deane, 59, a cameraman for Britain’s Sky News, was shot […]

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), today expressed alarm at reports that an explosive device was detonated in front of the home of Montenegrin journalist Tufik Softic. The device exploded on Sunday night outside Softic’s house in the town of Berane while he was at home […]

The Freedom for Journalists Platform (GOP), an umbrella group representing local and national free expression groups in Turkey, has released a formal declaration calling on the country’s government to take major steps to reverse a sharp decline in the state of press freedom and freedom of expression in recent years. Members of the GOP, which […]