A Somali radio journalist is recovering after being shot in the chest by two unknown assailants on Sunday evening, the latest in a series of armed attacks against journalists and media workers in the troubled East African state. Mohyadin Hasan Mohamed, head of news for the Shabelle Media Network, told the National Somali Union of […]

Lea en español The International Press Institute (IPI) condemned an alleged attack by a police officer on a photojournalist covering a general strike in Lisbon yesterday. Reuters released an image it said showed a police officer striking Agence France-Presse (AFP) photojournalist Patricia Melo as she covered the strike called by Portugal’s biggest trade union confederation […]

Read in English El Instituto Internacional de la Prensa (IPI, por sus siglas en inglés), condenó el supuesto ataque de un agente policial a una reportera gráfica que estaba cubriendo ayer en Lisboa una huelga general. Reuters difundió una imagen en la que, según dijo la agencia, se mostraba a un policía golpeando a la […]

IPI is concerned about a recent trend of censorship through the confiscation of newspapers in Sudan. The Sudanese authorities confiscated the fourth issue of Al Midan in a row on March 20, and have also banned two journalists for Alwan, Mujahid Abdullah and Essam Jaafar, from writing for any Sudanese newspaper, according to the Arabic […]