As the 2014 Reporters Without Borders - TV5Monde Prize for Press Freedom was being presented at a ceremony in Strasbourg last week, a Damascus court again postponed its verdict in the case of the Syrian jailed journalist and activist Mazen Darwish, the recipient of the 2012 award. Reporters Without Borders deplored the umpteenth adjournment by the court, which had been due to give its verdict on...
Reporters Without Borders has expressed outrage at the latest video of John Cantlie – a British journalist held hostage since November 2012 – that Islamic State released online on October 27. It shows him doing a “report†from the Syrian town of Kobani, giving the Jihadi group’s take on the state of its battle with Kurdish fighters supported by the US-led international coalition. John...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined international condemnation of the latest video released by the so-called IS group in which British photo-journalist, John Cantlie, delivered a scripted message under duress while aware that his life hanged in the balance. John Cantlie is a British war photographer and correspondent who was kidnapped in Syria in November 2012. “It is...
The International Press Institute (IPI) Wednesday expressed outrage at the beheading of freelance American journalist Steven Sotloff by a militant affiliated with the Islamic State. “There are no words to truly express the shock, sadness and outrage we feel over the reports of the brutal murder of Mr. Sotloff,†IPI Executive Director Alison Bethel McKenzie said. “Our prayers go out to his...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has appealed for international action to improve protection of journalists covering events in Iraq and Syria following the brutal beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff. Following the execution of James Foley on August 19, the Jihadi group “The Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS)†yesterday posted video footage online showing...
Tuesday evening came the tragedy that another American journalist, Steven Sotloff, had allegedly been executed by the Islamic State (IS). Following the horrific murder of Mr. Sotloff, Mogens Blicher Bjerregård, the President of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has made an immediate appeal for an international investigation into the murder of the two journalists and demanded to bring...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today joined its affiliates in the US in welcoming the release of Theo Curtis, the American journalist who was released on Sunday 24 August in Syria, while voicing concern for the safety of many others still being held, including up to twenty in Syria alone. The IFJ affiliate in Washington, the NewsGuild –CWA, said journalists are increasingly...
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...
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...
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...
