Prominent security expert and anti-corruption activist Alfredo Landaverde was gunned down last week in Tegucigalpa by assailants on a motorbike, just one day after a journalist, Luz Marina Paz, was murdered in a similar fashion. According to news reports, Mr. Landaverde and his wife, Hilda Caldera, were stopped at a traffic light on their way […]

Influential journalist and human rights activist Hadzhimurad Kamalov was brutally gunned down in Russia on Thursday – a day dedicated to the commemoration of the assassination of journalists in the country. Kamalov was the founder of Chernovik, an independent local newspaper in Dagestan. The newspaper is well known for reporting on government corruption. He was […]

Little more than two weeks after the start of the first free elections to take place in Egypt in decades, threats to press freedom, including the censoring of a major new English-language newspaper, have mounted. The second edition of the Egypt Independent – planned for 1 December – never made it to press after objections […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute, condemns the physical attack against a Publika TV crew in Calarasi, a town of 16,000 inhabitants in central Moldova, approximately 50 kilometers from the country’s capital, Chisinau. The incident occurred on 7 December 2011, when the TV crew arrived in […]