International Press Institute (IPI)

George Tselikas was assaulted on 14 April 2013 by a group of unknown assailants outside a football stadium in Athens. This is the third attack on a sports journalist in Greece this year.

Mansour Nour, a journalist for the September 26 newspaper, was shot at by gunmen in the city of Aden. He was hit three times in his right leg, which later had to be amputated.

As a global campaign to release journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye from prison picks up speed, other Yemeni journalists are finding it increasingly hard to do their jobs amid death threats and attempted attacks orchestrated at the hands of a variety of Yemeni factions with different agendas.

An explosive device weighing roughly 400 grams was found in the building where two media outlets were situated.

The International Press Institute (IPI) welcomes commitments made by the political leadership in Antigua and Barbuda to repeal criminal defamation – possibly as soon as May 3, World Press Freedom Day.

Recent press freedom violations have been popping up in Albania, Bulgaria, Kosovo, and other South East European nations.

A report released by the International Press Institute and the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers states that the new Mexican federal government must work to fully implement recent institutional measures designed to improve journalist safety.

As unverified information runs rampant through websites and social media, certain journalists covering Syria are finding that false reports attributed to them are putting them at risk.