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SEEMO condemns reported attack on Greek journalist by Athens municipal police

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), yesterday condemned a reported attack on a journalist in Greece. According to a statement posted on the website of the Journalists’ Union of the Athens Daily Newspapers, a municipal police officer in Athens allegedly struck and insulted Greek journalist […]

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Britain’s Labour Party leader says News Corporation should be forced to sell a newspaper

The International Press Institute (IPI) on Wednesday expressed concern after the leader of the British Labour Party, Ed Miliband, argued yesterday that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation should be forced to sell one of its newspapers. Miliband told the Leveson inquiry set up to examine media ethics following the explosion of last year’s phone-hacking scandal that […]

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Peruvian journalists sentenced for defamation

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the recent convictions of three Peruvian journalists on defamation charges, and called on the Peruvian government to abolish libel as a criminal offence. On June 5, a judge in Lima sentenced Juan Carlos Tafur, editor of Diario 16, and journalist Roberto More Chávez to two-year suspended prison senteces […]

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UK reporter claims Syria rebels wanted him shot by army

The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed concern over allegations made on Friday, June 8, in a blog post by Channel 4 reporter Alex Thomson, who claimed that members of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) deliberately put him and his colleagues in the way of Syrian Army fire. Thomson, Channel 4’s anchor and chief correspondent, […]

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