The International Press Institute (IPI) today reiterated its call for the immediate release of Turkish journalist Cüneyt Ünal, who was reportedly captured by Syrian loyalist forces on Aug. 20. Ünal, a cameraman with the US-funded Arabic-language satellite station Al Hurra, was reportedly travelling near Aleppo alongside Japanese reporter, Mika Yamamoto, who was killed on Aug. […]

An information war has erupted around the world. The battle lines are drawn between those governments that regard the free flow of information, and the ability to access it, as a matter of fundamental human rights, and those that regard official control of information as a fundamental sovereign prerogative. The contest is being waged institutionally […]

On Aug. 19, 2012, Marin Mema, a reporter with Albanian Top Chanel TV was heading to Greece on a private visit when Greek border police denied him entry to the country, recalling a report of his on Greece a year earlier, Mema explained to SEEMO. He was handed a piece of paper on which he was […]

Japanese reporter Mika Yamamoto was killed on Monday in the Syrian city of Aleppo, where clashes between rebels and regime forces have raged for weeks. Yamamoto, a veteran war correspondent who covered the 2001 conflict in Afghanistan and the 2003 conflict in Iraq, was working for The Japan Press, an independent TV news provider that […]