The Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate has reported that three journalists reporting on a mass wedding of 500 couples in Gaza City were attacked. The mass wedding was organised by local charities in conjunction with Hamas, according to Ramallah-based Maan News. According to the Palestine Press Agency and the Wafa news agency, the journalists who were attacked […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), strongly condemns the brutal physical attack on Olivera Lakic, an investigative reporter with the Podgorica-based daily Vijesti. When she opened the door of her apartment building, at 9:30 PM on Mar. 7, 2012, a man approached Lakic and hit […]

Amid reports of attacks on journalists covering post-election protests in Russia, a prominent Moscow-based journalist warned this week that President-elect Vladimir Putin will maintain force as a tool to suppress dissent despite a changed political landscape. Galina Sidorova, chair of the Foundation for Investigative Journalism in Russia and vice-chair of the International Press Institute (IPI)’s […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today urged a Louisiana sheriff to respond with the utmost seriousness following the use, by deputies, of a journalist’s photograph for target practice after he reported on alleged voter fraud by sheriff’s employees. Sheriff Jack Stephens of St. Bernard Parish, southeast of New Orleans, apologised last week after WVUE Fox […]