Twelve media freedom organisations, including the International Press Institute,  cosigned, today, a joint statement calling on the Burmese government to put a stop to its harassment and prosecution of journalists and calling on the release of the Democratic Voice of Burma’s Video Journalist. Free the Democratic Voice of Burma’s Video Journalists www.freeburmavj.org Despite pledges by […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organization (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), today condemned the second shooting attack this year on journalists working for Afrika, a Turkish-language newspaper in Northern Cyprus. An armed man came to Afrika’s office on 3 July looking for its editor-in-chief, Sener Levent, and fired a shot […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the decision of a Sudanese court to sentence a journalist to one month in prison for reporting on the alleged rape of a female opposition activist by members of the country’s security forces. Fatimah Ghazali was jailed on Tuesday, 5 July, freelance journalist and human rights advocate Abdelgadir […]

Two Swedish journalists were injured and are now in Ethiopian custody after the pair “illegally” entered an ethnically Somali part of the country where journalists are not permitted, reports say, an Ethiopian government spokesperson told the media, Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye, photographers for Kontinent photojournalist agency, were accompanying members of the Ogaden National Liberation […]