There has been a worrying spike in violence against journalists in Pakistan, specifically in the restive provinces of Swat and Baluchistan. On Sunday, 14 August, Muneer Shakir, a correspondent for Waqt News was gunned down on his way home, in the town of Khuzdar in Baluchistan. He died in hospital. Although Shakir had not reported […]

Radio show host Niel Jimena, 42, was killed on Negros Island yesterday in a motorcycle chase by two gunmen, AFP and local news reports said. He was reportedly slain near his home in E.B. Magalona town after a car chase. Jimena had hosted a twice-weekly radio show called “Judge” on DYRI-RMN, on which he frequently […]

BBC correspondent Matthew Price today said there was an increasingly “desperate situation” at the Rixos hotel in Tripoli, where around three dozen journalists and several other foreigners say that armed men are preventing them from leaving. International reports say the Rixos hotel has now lost electricity in some parts and that those in the hotel […]

Al-Jazeera’s Kabul Bureau Chief, Samer Allawi, remains in Israeli custody on accusations of membership in Hamas, and of posing a risk to Israeli national security, the Doha-based news network told IPI in an emailed statement this morning. Allawi, a Palestinian national, was told by a court yesterday that his detention will be extended for another […]