The International Press Institute (IPI) expressed concern today over the safety of Ukrainian journalist Vasyl Klymentyev, who has been missing in the country for 10 days. Klymentyev went missing on Wednesday 11 August after leaving home with an unidentified man, according to local police reports.  Ukrainian press freedom organisation, the Institute of Mass Information (IMI), […]

Two offices belonging to Mexico’s largest media organization, Televisa, were attacked with explosives at the weekend, a week after thousands of journalists marched silently through Mexico City, the capital, to protest against the violence, intimidation and harassment journalists face in the Central American country. The first of the two attacks happened in the northern border […]

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South East and Central Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), condemns the assault on Victor Ciobanu, a journalist for Jurnalul TV in Moldova. According to information received by SEEMO, on 28 July 2010 Ciobanu […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), the world’s oldest global press freedom organisation with members from the world’s leading media outlets, addressed an open letter to Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych on Tuesday respectfully urging him to address a disturbing deterioration in press freedom over the last six months in Ukraine. President Yanukovych won election in February […]