The International Press Institute (IPI), a media freedom organisation with an almost 60-year history of defending liberty of the press, on Wednesday began a five day advocacy mission to Russia, one of the world’s most dangerous countries for journalists. The mission began with an investigation into the events surrounding the brutal attack on a Khimki-based […]

Al-Shabab militants in the Somali town of Baidoa yesterday shut down privately-owned Radio Warsan, and took the station’s director and news editor into custody. According to the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ), al-Shabab forces in Baidoa entered the station’s premises on 30 September 2009 at 4 P.M, and demanded that the FM station stop […]

On the day an International Press Institute (IPI) advocacy mission arrived in Russia to discuss the state of media freedom in the country, reports emerged that Russian freelance journalist and human rights activist Alexandr Podrabinek has gone into hiding after angering members of a nationalist pro-Kremlin youth movement with an article he wrote criticising Russia’s […]

A reporter, a cameraman and an assistant working for Japan’s Kyodo News Agency in Beijing were on Friday assaulted by Chinese authorities who stormed their hotel room around 8 p.m., Kyodo News have reported. Kyodo News alleged that the authorities kicked the three media professionals and hit them on the head to make them kneel […]