The International Press Institute (IPI) is deeply concerned for the well-being of jailed Cuban journalist Calixto Ramón Martínez, who has been on a hunger strike since Nov. 10 to protest prison conditions. In a video statement released yesterday, Hablemos Press, the Havana-based independent news agency for which Martínez was a correspondent, said that the journalist […]

The South and East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), has named Turkish cameraman Cüneyt Ünal and his missing colleague, Jordanian reporter of Palestinian origin Bashar Fahmi Kaddumi, the winners of the 2012 SEEMO Human Rights Award. The award is scheduled to be presented during a ceremony on Dec. […]

The Argentine government confirmed yesterday that it would proceed on Friday, Dec. 7 — or “7D” as it has become known in the press — with the forcible breakup of media companies, including Grupo Clarín, that are in violation of “anti-monopoly” measures included in the country’s new media law. “Until midnight on Friday, December 7, […]

The media freedom committee of the Syrian Journalists Association, with whom the International Press Institute (IPI) has cooperated in its efforts to verify information related to attacks against journalists in Syria, announced that 100 media activists, citizen reporters and journalists have been killed in Syria since the start of the conflict last year. Thirty-six journalists […]