The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed concern over the fate of two Tunisian journalists who went missing in Libya in September 2014 following a new claim that they had been killed at the hands of the Islamic State group. A Libyan detainee believed to be a member of the group said in an interview […]

The following is an appeal from over 80 groups, initiated by the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR), the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) and PEN International’s Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC), calling on the authorities to free human rights defenders, journalists, bloggers and writers in Syria, some of whom have been detained incommunicado: […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the attempted assassination of a Syrian media activist operating in Turkey and renewed its calls on Turkey’s government to end a spate of violent attacks on journalists and media activists claimed by the Islamic State group. Unidentified gunmen on a motorcycle shot Ahmed Abdul-Qadir, founder of Syrian website […]

The offices of a French satirical magazine were attacked on Tuesday night after the publication featured a cartoon of the prophet Muhammad on its cover. Some news reports suggested that the magazine had not yet been distributed. According to news reports, a petrol bomb was thrown through the window of Charlie Hebdo’s Paris headquarters around […]