The political correspondent for French news broadcaster France 24, Mickael Szames, was allegedly beaten and insulted by security agents from France’s extreme right-wing National Front (FN) at a party congress on Saturday, the French broadcaster reported. In a live broadcast from Tours, where the congress was held, the journalist said eight FN security officers knocked […]

On 13 July, Adrien Morin, a journalist interning with France’s Le Monde newspaper was arrested while covering a demonstration in the Paris suburb of Montreuil and held for some nine hours, overnight. The demonstrators were protesting against police violence, after five people were injured a day earlier when police forcibly evacuated a building occupied by […]

Her Excellency Madame Catherine Tasca Minister of Culture and Communications Ministry of Culture 3, rue de Valois 75001 Paris France Fax: (+331) 42 61 35 77 Vienna, 20 March 2002 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, is deeply concerned about attempts to prevent the […]