Three members of the BBC’s Arabic Service team were detained and beaten by Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi’s forces for 21 hours on Monday, according to the BBC and a variety of news outlets. Briton Chris Cobb-Smith, Palestinian Feras Killani, and Turkish cameraman Goktay Koraltan had been trying to reach the rebel- ruled Zawiyah, which […]

A threatening handwritten letter addressed to four prominent Italian journalists was delivered in an envelope also containing four bullets to the headquarters of Italy’s public broadcaster, RAI, in Rome’s Via Teulada on 1 March. The envelope was addressed to journalists Michele Santoro, Marco Travaglio, Gianni Barbacetto and Peter Gomez. RAI journalist and anchorman Michele Santoro, […]

The South and East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in South East and Central Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), condemns the gun attack and death threat against Turkish-Cypriot journalist Sener Levent, editor of the  newspaper Afrika. On 25 February 2011, unknown attackers […]

European and US diplomats in Beijing, as well as journalists’ groups around the world, have strongly criticised China’s latest clampdown on journalists. “It is unacceptable that journalists are harassed and manhandled while seeking to cover a peaceful protest -which ultimately did not even take place,” said IPI Director Alison Bethel McKenzie. “Journalists working in China […]