Recently-released Turkish journalist Nedim Şener yesterday sent a letter to the International Press Institute (IPI) thanking the group and its members around the world for their ongoing support. Şener, who was released from prison on Mar. 12 after spending more than a year in custody on charges that he supported an alleged coup plot, described […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), condemns the latest pressure against reporters of the “Justice in Kosovo” TV program. On 6 March 2012, the mayor of Prizren, a town 60 kilometres away from Pristina, Kosovo’s capital, allegedly threatened the TV crew of the program “Justice […]

As part of the BETA Photograph of the Year competition, the Vienna-based South and East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), calls for the submission of entries for its 2012 SEEMO Human Rights Photo Award. All professional photojournalists working and taking photographs in South East and Central Europe are […]

All 27 executive board members of the International Press Institute (IPI), the world’s oldest global press freedom organisation, expressed unanimous support last week for Israeli journalist Uri Blau. Blau faces charges under Israel’s Espionage Act and seven years in prison over articles he wrote for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz using classified military documents passed to […]