The International Press Institute (IPI) today marked the birthday of award-winning Syrian human rights defender Razan Zaitouneh, who remains missing since her abduction along with three colleagues in December 2013, by joining some 30 other human rights watchdogs in a message of solidarity and a call for their freedom. Armed men kidnapped Zaitouneh and the others […]

In a joint global effort, the International Press Institute (IPI), the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM) and fifteen other international organisations today called on Syrian authorities to drop all charges against recently released Syrian journalist and IPI World Press Freedom Hero Mazen Darwish and two colleagues, Hani Al-Zitani and Hussein Gharir. […]

Renowned Syrian journalist Mazen Darwish, the International Press Institute’s (IPI) 2015 World Press Freedom Hero, was freed today after spending nearly three-and-a-half years behind bars in his home country on spurious terrorism charges. Yara Bader, Mazen’s wife and the director of the Syrian Centre for Media Freedom (SCM), the organisation founded by Darwish in 2004 to protect […]

A Syrian judge yesterday postponed the trial of IPI World Press Freedom Hero Mazen Darwish again, but in a troubling move set no new court date. The development is particularly concerning given the fact that Darwish and his fellow imprisoned colleagues from the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM) – Hussain Ghrer […]