On Sunday, a special press court in Iran convicted Thomson Reuters’ Tehran bureau chief Parisa Hafezi of propaganda against the Islamic Republic for a video story in February that mistakenly described a group of female martial arts students as ninja “assassins”, reports said. A court sentence is expected within a week. After the martial arts […]

A public campaign led in part by high-ranking government officials to discredit two prominent Trindadian investigative journalists must end, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. Denyse Renne of the Trinidad Guardian and Asha Javeed of the Trinidad Express have been the target of public accusations and criticism by leading members of the ruling United […]

Nepali journalist Amar Kshitij Bhandari was manhandled on Tuesday by a group of so-called “disqualified Maoist fighters” allegedly affiliated with the United Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) during a demonstration called by them in Rapti Zone, Mid-West Nepal. As part of Nepal’s peace process, the Nepalese army has sought to integrate Maoist fighters spread across […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed a Moscow court’s decision to end proceedings against a Russian journalist who was accused of divulging personal data after a newspaper identified a public official’s name and position in an article about corruption. The Moscow Khamovniki District Court yesterday terminated two administrative cases against the news agency RIA-Novosti […]