The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed concern over the arrest of three photojournalists by the Georgian authorities. Irakli Gedenidze, the personal photographer for Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, Foreign Ministry photographer Giorgi Abdaladze, and European Pressphoto Agency (EPA) employee Zurab Kurtsikidze were detained on 7 July and accused of spying for Russia, EPA Editor-in-Chief Cengiz […]

Four American journalists were arrested on Monday while filming anti-government protests in Egypt, according to CNN.com. Producer and former Al Jazeera journalist Jason Mojica, Egyptian-American energy consultant Sherif Helwa and two unidentified crew members had been covering the unrest in Suez for Vice magazine when they were handed over to military intelligence by Egyptian citizens. […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) urges the authorities to conduct a transparent investigation into recent attacks against, and harassment of, journalists in the Mexican state of Chiapas, in the southern part of the country. Jacobo Elnecavé Luttman, 31, has been in critical condition for almost three weeks after six individuals brutally beat him on 19 […]

Andrzej Poczobut – Belarusian correspondent of Gazeta Wyborcza, a leading Polish daily newspaper, and a Polish-Belarusian minority activist – was sentenced Tuesday on criminal charges that he insulted Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko. A closed-door court in Grodno, Belarus, sentenced Poczobut to three years imprisonment, but suspended the sentence and freed the journalist from jail, where […]