The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on authorities in Kazakhstan to investigate an attack that reportedly left a journalist in the capital city of Astana hospitalised with severe injuries. Unknown assailants beat Ularbek Baitailaq– a Kazakh National Archive employee, who has contributed articles to the opposition Dat weekly, the Chetvyortaya vlast (Fourth Estate) newspaper […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), today condemned the detention and alleged hitting of Dimitri Popota, a journalist with the Athens–based weekly Protothema. On Aug. 7, Popota was covering the transfer of a high-profile rape suspect from the police station to the court house on […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), today condemned a physical attack against Chisinau-based Jurnal TV channel journalist Victoria Ocara, in Moldova. On Aug. 5, Ocara was reporting on clashes between two opposing groups of demonstrators in Balti, the second largest city in Moldova, when someone […]

A Honduran reporter is seeking asylum in the United States with his family after his son was shot and wounded on Friday in what the journalist said was the third attempt on his life in recent years. Honduran daily El Heraldo reported that José Encarnación Chinchilla López – a correspondent with Radio Cadena Voces in […]