Friday, 29 January 2010
Lebanon's President Michel Suleiman meets with Lebanon's Prime Minister-designate Saad al-Hariri (R) at the presidential palace in Baabda, near Beirut, November 9, 2009. REUTERS/ Mohamed Azaki
The International Press Institute (IPI) is to participate in a panel discussion on Freedom of Speech and Self-Censorship at a two-day regional conference in Beirut on censorship, organised by the Lebanon-based SKeyes free media group. The organisation was founded following the assassination of An-Nahar journalist Samir Kassir in June 2005.
Founded in 2009, SKeyes covers press freedom issues in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and the Palestinian Territories.
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