International Press Institute (IPI)

IPI unveiled a new website to serve as a resource for information on the more than 150 journalists and media workers currently behind bars in Turkey.

The current mandate holder, Ms Dunja Mijatović, is due to leave the Office of OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media in a month’s time. And yet, to date, there has been no announcement of her successor.

A Libyan detainee believed to be a member of the group said in an interview aired on Saturday on private channel Libya Al-Hadath that he had witnessed the execution of Sofiène Chourabi and Nadhir Ktari in the eastern port city of Derna in 2015.

A Libyan detainee believed to be a member of the group said in an interview aired on Saturday on private channel Libya Al-Hadath that he had witnessed the execution of Sofiène Chourabi and Nadhir Ktari in the eastern port city of Derna in 2015.

The third murder of a journalist in the last eight months in India’s eastern Bihar state illustrates the danger of allowing such crimes to continue to be met with impunity, IPI said.

Just five months before Indonesia is set to host UNESCO’s 2017 celebration of World Press Freedom Day, its government still has not met a regional human rights watchdog’s demands to address press freedom violations in the country’s restive West Papua province.

Turkish authorities sealed off roads leading to a prison in order to stop a protest commemorating the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Turkish authorities sealed off roads leading to a prison in order to stop a protest commemorating the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.