The editor-in-chief of Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta yesterday accused the country’s chief investigator of threatening a deputy editor’s life, forcing the deputy editor to flee the country. The Guardian reported that Sergei Sokolov, who oversaw investigative reporting at the Moscow-based Novaya Gazeta, fled the country following the alleged threat by Alexander Bastrykin, who heads Russia’s […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), yesterday condemned a reported attack on a journalist in Greece. According to a statement posted on the website of the Journalists’ Union of the Athens Daily Newspapers, a municipal police officer in Athens allegedly struck and insulted Greek journalist […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) on Wednesday expressed concern after the leader of the British Labour Party, Ed Miliband, argued yesterday that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation should be forced to sell one of its newspapers. Miliband told the Leveson inquiry set up to examine media ethics following the explosion of last year’s phone-hacking scandal that […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the recent convictions of three Peruvian journalists on defamation charges, and called on the Peruvian government to abolish libel as a criminal offence. On June 5, a judge in Lima sentenced Juan Carlos Tafur, editor of Diario 16, and journalist Roberto More Chávez to two-year suspended prison senteces […]