On Friday, 19 January, the Turkish-Armenian journalist, Hrant Dink, was murdered outside the offices of the newspaper he founded. The journalist, who worked for the weekly newspaper Agos, was apparently shot twice in the head and once in the neck. Dink was a popular journalist who has faced legal problems for his articles about the […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) is deeply concerned by the intimidation and violent threats made against the management and staff of the Fiji Daily Post by the Fijian military during a coup d’état led by Commodore Frank Bainimarama. According to information before IPI, the Fiji Daily Post was forced to halt operations and evacuate their […]

According to information before the International Press Institute (IPI), Anna Politkovskaya, a well-known Russian investigative journalist and political commentator, was found shot dead in the lift of her apartment building in Moscow on 7 October 2006. She worked as a reporter for the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta and was reportedly finishing a story on the […]

Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, leading journalists and media executives in over 112 countries, is concerned by the apparent lack of an investigation into an attack that took place against a journalist in Bethlehem in mid-August. On 18 August, unidentified assailants went to the house of Al-Mahed (Nativity) […]