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 […]

Just a few days after a BBC News crew reported being held for 21 hours, and tortured, in Libya, a journalist working for British newspaper the Guardian is still unreachable in the country, news outlets said on Friday. A Brazilian journalist detained with the Guardian reporter was freed by government forces on Thursday. IPI condemns […]

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, […]