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 […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed concern over allegations made on Friday, June 8, in a blog post by Channel 4 reporter Alex Thomson, who claimed that members of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) deliberately put him and his colleagues in the way of Syrian Army fire. Thomson, Channel 4’s anchor and chief correspondent, […]

Read in English Esta mañana, el Instituto Internacional de Prensa (IPI, por sus siglas en inglés) y la Asociación Mundial de Periódicos y Editores de Noticias (WAN-IFRA) hicieron un llamamiento a las autoridades mexicanas exigiendo el inmediato esclarecimiento de la desaparición el pasado viernes de una periodista mexicana de fuente policíaca y su hijo de […]