British freelance journalist and documentary maker Paul Martin was arrested on Sunday 14 February upon arriving at a court house in Gaza City to provide evidence in a trial. Martin, who has worked for the BBC and the London-based The Times newspaper, will be detained for 15 days of interrogation, according to West Bank-based Ma’an News Agency. […]

A Turkish court on 10 December sentenced the editor of a Kurdish newspaper to 21 years in prison for publishing what the court called Kurdish propaganda, only two weeks after the European Court of Human Rights ordered Turkey to pay over 40,000 Euros to 20 Turkish journalists as compensation for having violated their rights. A […]

As Iran marked the 31st anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution on Thursday, amid reports of clashes between opposition supporters and police, the authorities attempted to disrupt the flow of information by preventing journalists from covering opposition activity, drastically slowing Internet service in Iran, and shutting down text messaging services, according to news reports. An […]

The United States military released Reuters photographer Ibrahim Jassam Mohammed on Wednesday after detaining him at Camp Cropper in Iraq for 17 months without charge. “We welcome the decision to release Jassam,” said IPI Director David Dadge. “However, we remain concerned by the fact that the US military felt it acceptable to hold him for […]