An Istanbul court accepted an indictment that reportedly charges Turkish journalist Ahmet Şık with being a member of a “terrorist organisation” and with threatening and defaming the judiciary, Reuters reported. The news agency said that Şık – who was released March 12 after more than one year in prison, but who still faces trial and […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), today condemned a physical attack against Chisinau-based Jurnal TV channel journalist Victoria Ocara, in Moldova. On Aug. 5, Ocara was reporting on clashes between two opposing groups of demonstrators in Balti, the second largest city in Moldova, when someone […]

With just under six weeks left until the start of the IPI conference, “Oil, Gas and Media”, to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from September 17-19, 2012, we invite you to register today for this special event, if you have not done so already. The two-and-a-half-day conference, to be held at the Kempinski Hotel Badamdar, […]

A Honduran reporter is seeking asylum in the United States with his family after his son was shot and wounded on Friday in what the journalist said was the third attempt on his life in recent years. Honduran daily El Heraldo reported that José Encarnación Chinchilla López – a correspondent with Radio Cadena Voces in […]