The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on Russian authorities to bring to justice those responsible for yesterday’s assault on well-known investigative journalist Grigory Pasko, who was attacked while in the city of Barnaul in Russia’s Altai region to train local journalists. Pasko, director of the Community of Investigative Journalists – Fond 19/29, said that […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned an Oman court’s decision giving three journalists prison time for reporting on alleged corruption within the country’s judiciary and ordering independent newspaper Azamn permanently closed. A court handed Azamn Editor-in-Chief Ibrahim al-Mamari and Deputy Editor Youssef al-Haj three-year prison sentences and fined them each 3,000 rials (approx. €6,900). The third […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the killing of prominent Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar, who was gunned down yesterday outside a courthouse in the capital Amman where he was to stand trial for a social media post sharing a satirical cartoon deemed offensive to Islam. A controversial political commentator and columnist, Hattar, 56, was […]

British photojournalist Giles Duley, who was seriously injured by a roadside bomb, on 7 February, while embedded with US and Afghan troops in Kandahar, Afghanistan, returned to England on 13 February for further medical treatment. The 39-year-old photojournalist, who specialized in humanitarian issues and cooperated with various charity organizations, had to undergo multiple amputations at […]