The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the killing of prominent Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar, who was gunned down yesterday outside a courthouse in the capital Amman where he was to stand trial for a social media post sharing a satirical cartoon deemed offensive to Islam. A controversial political commentator and columnist, Hattar, 56, was […]

British photojournalist Giles Duley, who was seriously injured by a roadside bomb, on 7 February, while embedded with US and Afghan troops in Kandahar, Afghanistan, returned to England on 13 February for further medical treatment. The 39-year-old photojournalist, who specialized in humanitarian issues and cooperated with various charity organizations, had to undergo multiple amputations at […]

Yemeni journalist Mohammed Shu’i al-Rabu’i was shot and killed on 13 February at his home in Beni Qais, in the northwest of the country. Al-Rabu’i, 34, had worked for the monthly newspaper Al Qaira, published by the main opposition party, the Islamic Reform Grouping (Islah), for more than 10 years and had written several articles […]

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 […]