UPDATE 23.03.2011: Two reporters with Agence France Press (AFP) and a photographer with Getty Images, who were detained last week in Libya reportedly by soldiers friendly to Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, were released early today, AFP reported. Qaddafi spokesman Mussa Ibrahim announced yesterday that “The leader of the revolution (Moamer Kadhafi) received an appeal from […]

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 […]