The International Press Institute (IPI) on Friday expressed grave concern over reports that a three-man TV crew from the Dubai-based Al Arabiya news outlet were kidnapped by members of militant group Abu Sayyaf. The three journalists, along with their guide and driver, have been missing since Tuesday, June 12, on a Philippine island known for […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) is concerned about the safety of journalists in the Middle East and North Africa following a number of press freedom violations that have been reported since the beginning of the month. Recent attacks on journalists in Lebanon, Iraq and Oman, and new laws on the table in Iraq, Egypt and […]

The editor-in-chief of Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta yesterday accused the country’s chief investigator of threatening a deputy editor’s life, forcing the deputy editor to flee the country. The Guardian reported that Sergei Sokolov, who oversaw investigative reporting at the Moscow-based Novaya Gazeta, fled the country following the alleged threat by Alexander Bastrykin, who heads Russia’s […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), yesterday condemned a reported attack on a journalist in Greece. According to a statement posted on the website of the Journalists’ Union of the Athens Daily Newspapers, a municipal police officer in Athens allegedly struck and insulted Greek journalist […]