A representative of the International Press Institute – Sverre Tom Radøy, a senior journalist with the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) who has significant reporting experience in Sri Lanka – attended the trial against Sri Lankan newspaper The Sunday Leader on 19 October 2010 in an effort to provide an international presence and to monitor the […]

Lebanese journalist and former television anchor for the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (LBC) May Chidiac, one of 60 “IPI World Press Freedom Heroes” honoured by the International Press Institute, spoke to Laura Pannasch at the IPI World Congress 2010 in Vienna. Even an assassination attempt in September 2005, in which she lost part of her left leg and left […]

An Istanbul court today agreed that Ogun Samast, the suspected gunman in the murder of Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, can be tried in juvenile court because he was 17 years old at the time of the shooting, news reports said. Hrant Dink, founder of Agos newspaper and an ethnic Armenian, wrote extensively on the killings […]

On Monday 18 October, IPI sent a letter to Zambian Vice President George Kunda requesting that his government refrain from statutory regulation of the media in the southern African country. Copies of the letter were also hand-delivered to President Rupiah Banda and Information Minister Ronnie Shikapwasha, with whom an IPI delegation met twice during a […]