Thai webmaster, Thanthawut Taweewarodomkul, was sentenced to 13 years in prison by a criminal court in Bangkok on 15 March in connection with material posted on the website, Nor Por Chor USA, in March 2010. Nor Por Chor USA is reportedly affiliated with the anti-government Red Shirt movement. According to Thai police, three comments deemed […]

International Press Institute Director Alison Bethel McKenzie and Press Freedom Manager Anthony Mills are in Istanbul on an emergency visit to the IPI Turkish National Committee and the Turkish Journalists Association to add their voices to those calling for the release of IPI Press Freedom Hero Nedim Şener and the many other journalists being detained […]

Four journalists from the United States and the United Kingdom were expelled from Yemen yesterday, news reports said, as attacks on foreign and local journalists covering the anti-regime protests in Yemen continue, according to IPI research. Yemeni security forces raided the journalists’ apartment early on Monday 14 March, and deported them from the country, news […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed disappointment following reports from Radio Free Europe that a freelance photographer working for its Azeri service was beaten by a police officer Friday in downtown Baku while photographing a demonstration. Abbas Atilay said he was covering the protest – where demonstrators reportedly demanded the release of jailed journalists […]