VIENNA, May 13, 2008 (AFP) - The International Press Institute, a media watchdog, on Tuesday strongly condemned the attacks on media in Lebanon during the past six days of sectarian bloodshed.

VIENNA, May 8, 2008 (AFP) - Ninety-three journalists were killed in 2007, almost half of them in Iraq, the International Press Institute media watchdog said in its annual press freedom review published Thursday.

The figure was the second highest in a decade after 2006, which saw 100 journalists' deaths, according to IPI figures.

VIENNA, May 2, 2008 (AFP) - International media watchdog IPI on Friday called on governments to fight restrictions of press freedom, as the world prepared to mark World Press Freedom Day.

VIENNA, April 18, 2008 (AFP) - The International Press Institute, a media watchdog, condemned on Friday the killing in the Gaza Strip this week of a Palestinian cameraman working for the Reuters news service.

VIENNA, April 7, 2008 (AFP) - The International Press Institute, a media watchdog, called on China to respect press freedoms and grant foreign journalists full access to Tibet, in a statement Monday.

VIENNA, Jan 22, 2008 (AFP) - The International Press Institute urged Lesotho to drop all charges against a local journalist arrested last year for allegedly making contact with violent government opponents, in a statement Tuesday.

VIENNA, Jan 4, 2008 (AFP) - The Vienna-based media watchdog International Press Institute called on the Kenyan government Friday to lift a ban on live radio and television news broadcasts imposed last weekend.

VIENNA, Dec 10, 2007 (AFP) - The International Press Institute named Hrant Dink, the murdered editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian weekly Ago, as one of its World Press Freedom Heroes on Monday.

VIENNA, Nov 21, 2007 (AFP) - The International Press Institute, a media watchdog, condemned Wednesday a Spanish court ruling convicting two cartoonists for publishing a caricature of a Spanish royal couple having sex.

VIENNA, Nov 19, 2007 (AFP) - The media watchdog International Press Institute announced Monday it has appointed its deputy director David Dadge as the new head of the organisation.