An employee of Lebanon’s Al-Akhbar newspaper confirmed to IPI that one of the newspaper’s journalists was killed in clashes between the Israeli and Lebanese armies which erupted Tuesday, shattering several years of relative calm on the tense Israel-Lebanon border. The Lebanese news site NOW Lebanon named the journalist as Assaf Abu Rahhal. Arab news reports […]

Excessive state regulation established by Ecuador’s newly passed media law poses a serious and immediate threat to independent journalism, the International Press Institute (IPI) stated in a special report released today. The report, a comprehensive review of press freedom developments in Ecuador since IPI’s visit to the country in May 2012, concludes that the situation […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) is concerned about the safety of journalists in the Middle East and North Africa following a number of press freedom violations that have been reported since the beginning of the month. Recent attacks on journalists in Lebanon, Iraq and Oman, and new laws on the table in Iraq, Egypt and […]

A Lebanese journalist escaped an apparent assassination attempt on Saturday, when the vehicle he was driving was hit by six bullets, Lebanon’s Daily Star newspaper reported. Lebanon’s National News Agency said that Mustafa Jeha was pursued and shot at on Saturday night as he drove on a motorway just south of Beirut. The Daily Star […]