The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed news that Ukraine’s state prosecutor has opened a criminal case against former President Leonid Kuchma for his alleged involvement in organising the 2000 murder of opposition journalist Georgiy Gongadze. Reuters reported that First Deputy Prosecutor General Renat Kuzmin announced the formal opening of a case against Kuchma at […]

Four journalists from The New York Times who were reporting on the Libyan unrest have gone missing, the newspaper reported on Wednesday, 16 March. The Libyan government has said it will help locate the journalists, and has given its assurance that if the journalists were captured, they would be released unharmed, Bill Keller, executive editor […]

Four journalists from the United States and the United Kingdom were expelled from Yemen yesterday, news reports said, as attacks on foreign and local journalists covering the anti-regime protests in Yemen continue, according to IPI research. Yemeni security forces raided the journalists’ apartment early on Monday 14 March, and deported them from the country, news […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed disappointment following reports from Radio Free Europe that a freelance photographer working for its Azeri service was beaten by a police officer Friday in downtown Baku while photographing a demonstration. Abbas Atilay said he was covering the protest – where demonstrators reportedly demanded the release of jailed journalists […]