Omar Harqous, a television journalist with Future News, a Beirut-based news channel, was attacked on Thursday, 27 November, while covering a demonstration by supporters of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party. The demonstrators were attempting to prevent the municipality authorities from removing political posters. Harqous had identified himself as a journalist to the demonstrators, and the […]

A high-level IPI mission will visit Dhaka, Bangladesh, from 28 November to 2 December to meet with government representatives, the political parties running in the elections, as well as with editors, journalists, and representatives of civil society. Elections, currently scheduled for 29 December, could represent the beginning of a new, more democratic era in the […]

Your Excellencies, The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South East Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), is deeply alarmed about the brutal attack on Dusan Miljus, a journalist for Jutarnji list, a Croatian daily. According to information before SEEMO, […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 120 countries, condemns the abduction and beating of Sri Lankan editor Keith Noyahr during the night of May 22. Noyahr, associate editor and defence columnist for Sri Lanka’s English-language daily, The Nation, was abducted in front of his […]