According to information before IPI, several journalists and other media workers covering the November election campaigns, including the parliamentary elections, have been beaten, arrested, prevented from entering polling stations, and otherwise harassed. The Turan Information Agency reported that the National Television and Radio Council banned foreign news crews from broadcasting live during the elections due […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in South East Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), is deeply concerned about the suspended jail sentence given to a Croatian journalist. According to information before SEEMO, on 2 November, the Municipal Court in […]

According to information provided to the International Press Institute (IPI), on 9 November, Fred M’membe, the editor and chief executive officer (CEO) of the privately owned daily newspaper, the Post, was arrested and detained in a police station in Zambia’s capital Lusaka. The arrest came after the editor voluntarily surrendered to the authorities at the […]

In an interview on 5 November, Ethiopian Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, told a reporter from the state-owned Ethiopian Television that elements of the local and international media were guilty of “fanning” recent violence in the capital, Addis Ababa that has led to the deaths of at least 42 people. In response to a politically loaded […]