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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has expressed its deep shock following the appalling beheading of US journalist James Foley, who went missing in Syria in 2012. The killing has been claimed by the Jihadi group “The Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS)” in video footage posted online that shows the barbaric murder. A masked man is seen conducting the execution after a speech...

Myanmar’s information minister and presidential advisor, U Ye Htut, told an International Press Institute (IPI) delegation this week that President U Thein Sein will not interfere in the ongoing case of four journalists and a media CEO sentenced to 10 years in prison for violating the 1923 Official Secrets Act. “The president says that as long as they are in court, he cannot intervene,” U Ye...

Two journalists were abducted in Libya on Tuesday, and the government shut down broadcasts of two state-run television stations after one was taken over by militants and the other took an anti-government line, according to news reports. Osama Rashid and Mohammed al-Saaidi, directors for the state-run Libya International Channel Television, were abducted by an unknown militant group at a checkpoint...

The Committee to Protect Journalists is extremely concerned for all journalists, most of them Syrians, still held captive by the Al-Qaeda splinter group Islamic State, which has repeatedly kidnapped, killed, and threatened journalists in the territories over which it holds sway. President Barack Obama confirmed today that the group is responsible for the barbaric murder of US freelance journalist...

Venezuelan telecommunications regulator CONATEL shut down a critical radio station on Tuesday after refusing to renew the station's expired transmission licence, according to news reports. The move follows CONATEL's suspension on Friday of a critical radio programme on another station. Officials from CONATEL arrived at the studio of Sensacional 94.7 FM, a popular radio station in Barinas...

The International Press Institute (IPI) has condemned the apparent murder of freelance American photojournalist James Foley by militants seeking to carve out an Islamic state in Iraq and Syria. A video posted online Tuesday purported to depict an extremist from the Islamic State beheading Foley, who disappeared in Syria in November 2012 while reporting on the ongoing conflict in the country for...

The apparent execution of the freelance journalist James Foley on August 19, 2014 in Syria by the Islamic State would be a war crime if confirmed. Groups detaining journalists should immediately and unconditionally release them. The Islamic State, formerly known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Sham (ISIS), released a video of Foley’s purported execution. The group announced that it also is...

The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the World Editors Forum have condemned the barbaric killing of American photojournalist James Foley and expressed their deepest condolences to his family and all those who knew and worked with him. “WAN-IFRA is appalled by the news of James Foley’s murder and condemns in the strongest possible terms this deliberate...

The International Federation of Journalists has expressed its strong support to its member unions in the United States in their protest about the shameful treatment of journalists by a police SWAT team during the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri. Two reporters, Ryan Reilly of the Huffington Post and Wesley Lowery of the Washington Post, were violently arrested by police in an act “wholly unwarranted...

Venezuelan authorities should immediately reverse the suspension of a critical radio programme that has been off the air since Friday, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The Venezuelan telecommunications regulator CONATEL on Friday ordered the suspension of "Aquí entre tú y yo" (Between Us), a weekday news and opinion radio programme on the popular AM station Radio Caracas Radio...