Ten journalists were arrested and hauled onto police buses during events surrounding the forcible eviction of Occupy Wall Street protesters from Zuccotti Park earlier this week, while other reporters and photographers covering the raid were kept at a distance by police barriers, according to news reports. The Associated Press (AP) said Wednesday that two of […]

A photojournalist taking a video after a deadly shooting next to the Occupy Oakland camp in San Francisco last week was attacked by members of the movement. The shooting appears to be unrelated to the movement. Randy Davis, a photojournalist for ABC7, was beaten by members of the Occupy Oakland group when he tried to […]

The government of Azerbaijan has stepped up its campaign to silence independent media and free expression in the country, according to a new report by Amnesty International. In the report, called “The spring that never blossomed: Freedoms suppressed in Azerbaijan,” Amnesty details a worsening human rights situation in the oil-rich former Soviet republic.  The group […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) is concerned over the spate of recent press freedom violations reported in Israel and the Palestinian Territories, ranging from the possible prosecution of Haaretz journalist Uri Blau, to the continued detention of Palestinian journalist Nawaf al-Amer, to the reported attacks on journalists by Israeli settlers in the West Bank. Israeli […]