Eight members of the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), arrested in February, began trial under the military penal code in Damascus this weekend, according to exiled SCM activist Massoud Akko. The condition of the remaining five members remains unknown. IPI Acting Deputy Director Anthony Mills said: “We call on the authorities […]

A series of journalists, and a media activist, were killed this week, and another was viciously attacked on Friday, starkly highlighting the grave global threats to the safety of journalists. The International Press Institute (IPI) was saddened to learn of the death of several citizen reporters in Syria, in the past few days, despite a […]

IPI today expressed alarm at suggestions that Turkish journalists Adem Özköse and Hamit Coşkun have been in the custody of Syrian authorities since March 10, and that at least one of them, according to news reports, may have been tortured. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan yesterday said that Syria was holding the journalists prisoner […]

The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism is pleased to announce the creation of a new award named the Said-Asfari Fellowship jointly sponsored by the Asfari Foundation and the Said Foundation. This gives a unique opportunity for journalists from Lebanon, Palestine and Syria (resident in the Levant region or Egypt) to benefit from a […]