The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), today condemned the detention and alleged hitting of Dimitri Popota, a journalist with the Athens–based weekly Protothema. On Aug. 7, Popota was covering the transfer of a high-profile rape suspect from the police station to the court house on […]

An Istanbul court accepted an indictment that reportedly charges Turkish journalist Ahmet Şık with being a member of a “terrorist organisation” and with threatening and defaming the judiciary, Reuters reported. The news agency said that Şık – who was released March 12 after more than one year in prison, but who still faces trial and […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), today condemned a physical attack against Chisinau-based Jurnal TV channel journalist Victoria Ocara, in Moldova. On Aug. 5, Ocara was reporting on clashes between two opposing groups of demonstrators in Balti, the second largest city in Moldova, when someone […]

With just under six weeks left until the start of the IPI conference, “Oil, Gas and Media”, to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from September 17-19, 2012, we invite you to register today for this special event, if you have not done so already. The two-and-a-half-day conference, to be held at the Kempinski Hotel Badamdar, […]