BBC correspondent Matthew Price today said there was an increasingly “desperate situation” at the Rixos hotel in Tripoli, where around three dozen journalists and several other foreigners say that armed men are preventing them from leaving. International reports say the Rixos hotel has now lost electricity in some parts and that those in the hotel […]

Al-Jazeera’s Kabul Bureau Chief, Samer Allawi, remains in Israeli custody on accusations of membership in Hamas, and of posing a risk to Israeli national security, the Doha-based news network told IPI in an emailed statement this morning. Allawi, a Palestinian national, was told by a court yesterday that his detention will be extended for another […]

Vienna, 22 August 2011 – The Vienna-based South East Europe Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), condemns the detention of two journalists in northwestern Greece. On 16 August 2011, the Skopje-based journalists, Goran Momirovski of Kanal 5 television and Milena Gjorgjievska, a journalist with the daily Vest, accompanied a group of […]

Bloggers across Asia face criminal charges and significant prison time for their postings, highlighting the increasingly restrictive levels of online censorship in the region. In Vietnam, Pham Minh Hoang, a university teacher and blogger, was sentenced to three years in prison as well as three years of house arrest on Wednesday on a charge of […]