The International Press Institute (IPI) strongly condemns the killing of Reuters photojournalist Issam Abdallah in southern Lebanon in apparent Israeli missile fire and calls on Israel to carry out a swift, thorough, and transparent investigation into the incident. Abdallah, 37, was killed near a village on the Israeli-Lebanese border on Friday where Israeli and Hezbollah […]

The IPI global network condemns the July 11 sentencing of Lebanese journalist Dima Sadek to one year in prison for “slander, defamation, and promoting sectarianism” in a case brought against her by Gebran Bassil, leader of one of the country’s largest political parties, Free Patriotic Movement (FPM).  We call on the courts to overturn this […]

The sweeping powers granted last week by the Lebanese Parliament to the armed forces to bring protests under control threaten press freedom in the country, the International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, said. Parliament, which met last Friday, August 13 for the first time after the explosion on August […]

Those who planted the car bomb that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005 did not stop there. Among those targeted were journalists. In June 2005, history professor and An-Nahar columnist Samir Kassir was killed in a car bomb outside his house. Three months later, May Chidiac, a presenter for LBC television, survived […]