The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed news that a group of journalists kidnapped in Syria has been freed, but renewed its call for the release of three others currently believed held there. NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel and four others were freed Monday following a firefight that erupted when captors transporting them […]

ARTICLE 19, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the International Press Institute and Reporters Without Borders are deeply concerned that Ukrainian journalist Anhar Kochneva, kidnapped by Syrian rebels in October 2012, is in grave danger of being murdered. Her kidnappers, allegedly members of the Free Syrian Army, have threatened to kill her tomorrow, 13 December 2012, […]

The media freedom committee of the Syrian Journalists Association, with whom the International Press Institute (IPI) has cooperated in its efforts to verify information related to attacks against journalists in Syria, announced that 100 media activists, citizen reporters and journalists have been killed in Syria since the start of the conflict last year. Thirty-six journalists […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed news that a Turkish cameraman held in Syria for three months has been freed, but called for the release of the man’s colleague and two other journalists believed to be held in the country. Turkish daily Hürriyet reported that Cüneyt Ünal, a cameraman with the U.S.-funded Arabic-language satellite […]