The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed grave concern at the sentencing of Cuban reporter José Antonio Torres to 14 years in prison for espionage. A journalist for the state-run newspaper Granma, Torres was detained on March 11, 2011, shortly after publishing a pair of articles containing criticism of a government aqueduct project near the […]

VA media building in Gaza was hit by Israeli missiles for the second time in two days, resulting in the death of a leader from the militant group Islamic Jihad and the injury of several others, reports said. This was the second time that the building has been targeted within the last 36 hours. Reuters […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed news that a Turkish cameraman held in Syria for three months has been freed, but called for the release of the man’s colleague and two other journalists believed to be held in the country. Turkish daily Hürriyet reported that Cüneyt Ünal, a cameraman with the U.S.-funded Arabic-language satellite […]

The International Press Institute strongly condemned the Israeli military bombardment of two buildings housing local and international news media in Gaza, which injured at least six journalists, according to local and international news reports.* IPI further condemned a travel ban imposed on foreign journalists by Hamas. “We remind Israel and Hamas that journalists covering conflict […]