Days after a television crew led by Jordanian journalist Baker Atyani was reported missing, the Philippines interior secretary said that one of the Filipino crew members told his family that they are not in any danger, according to local reports. Atyani, accompanied by two Filipino journalists, a translator and driver had travelled to the island […]

One year after promulgating the latest version of Croatia’s public service broadcasting law, passed in December 2010, the Croatian Radio Television Law is about to be amended again. It is expected that the latest draft proposal, finalized in June 2012, will be discussed in the country’s parliament by July 2012. Although the December 2010 law […]

Andrzej Poczobut, Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza correspondent in Belarus, and Polish minority activist there, was arrested on Thursday in the town of Grodno, Belarus. At 4 pm police searched Andrzej’s apartment and took the journalist to prosecutor’s office. Andrzej was interrogated and arrested, Igor Bancer, his colleague from the Polish Union in Belarus, the organization banned […]

In personal letters to the three Mexican presidential candidates, the International Press Institute (IPI), the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), and the World Editors Forum have called on the candidates to explain the measures they would take to end violence against journalists and to bring their attackers to justice. “We are seriously […]