The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), strongly condemns the latest attacks on journalists in Greece. On Apr. 5, 2012, Mario Lolos, the president of the Greek Photojournalists’ Union, was covering an anti-government rally on Syntagma Square, downtown Athens, when a policeman allegedly hit him several […]

Physical and verbal attacks against journalists are continuing unabated in Montenegro. The latest victim was Marko Milacic, a correspondent for the Belgrade-based daily Press in Montenegro. Milacic entered a restaurant and was told by a local businessman that he should not mention him in the media. The businessman’s bodyguard allegedly pushed Milacic and injured his […]

IPI called for a thorough investigation into the murder of Kamiran Salaheddin, a news presenter for Salaheddin channel, who was killed on Tuesday in Iraq, according to reports. Salaheddin, 34 or 35 depending on reports, died after a “sticky bomb” (a magnetic bomb) attached to his car exploded while he was on the way home […]

IPI condemns the suicide attack that took the lives of six people, including two top Somali sports officials, and seriously wounded 10 Somali journalists, according to reports. A suicide bomber blew up the newly re-opened national theatre in Somali’s troubled capital Mogadishu during a ceremony that was meant to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Somali […]