The International Press Institute (IPI) strongly condemns the reported killing of two Syrian journalists in Damascus on Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012. According to various news reports, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) announced on Sunday that one of its reporters, Ali Abbas, was killed by members of an ‘armed terrorist group’ at his home residence […]

Syria’s Air Force Intelligence has decided to try Syrian human rights lawyer Mazen Darwish, head of the Damascus-based Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), behind closed doors before a Military Field Court, Reuters reported yesterday. The news agency said that the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) expressed concern that Darwish might […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on authorities in Kazakhstan to investigate an attack that reportedly left a journalist in the capital city of Astana hospitalised with severe injuries. Unknown assailants beat Ularbek Baitailaq– a Kazakh National Archive employee, who has contributed articles to the opposition Dat weekly, the Chetvyortaya vlast (Fourth Estate) newspaper […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), today condemned the detention and alleged hitting of Dimitri Popota, a journalist with the Athens–based weekly Protothema. On Aug. 7, Popota was covering the transfer of a high-profile rape suspect from the police station to the court house on […]