According to information before IPI, several journalists and other media workers covering the November election campaigns, including the parliamentary elections, have been beaten, arrested, prevented from entering polling stations, and otherwise harassed. The Turan Information Agency reported that the National Television and Radio Council banned foreign news crews from broadcasting live during the elections due […]

In an interview on 5 November, Ethiopian Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, told a reporter from the state-owned Ethiopian Television that elements of the local and international media were guilty of “fanning” recent violence in the capital, Addis Ababa that has led to the deaths of at least 42 people. In response to a politically loaded […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, leading journalists and media executives in over 112 countries, is deeply concerned about the beating of Yemeni cameraman Mujeeb Suwailih at the hands of local security forces. Suwailih, who works for the pan-Arab news channel Al-Arabiya, was filming a protest by workers at a public […]

H.E. Jorgos Voulgarakis Minister of Public Order Athens, Greece Fax: +30 210 691 2661, +30 210 692 0487, +30 210 692 9764 H.E. Jorgos Orfanos Derputy Minister of Culture (responsible for Sports) Athens, Greece Fax:+30 210 820 1373, +30 210 324 6085, +30 210 322 8831 Vienna, 3 October 2005 Your Excellencies, The Vienna-based South […]