A journalist was killed on Tuesday 20 April in the northern Honduras city of San Pedro Sula, taking the total number of reporters killed in the country in the past six weeks to seven. According to local media sources, Jorge Alberto Orellana, host of the program ‘En Vivo con Georgino’ at private local television station […]

The International Press Institute is deeply concerned about reports that a ransom demand has been issued for the release of Pakistani freelance journalist Asad Qureshi, who was reported missing earlier this month. Qureshi was traveling with two retired ISI operatives, Colonel Imam and Squadron Leader Khalid Khwaja, near the town of Kohat in Pakistan’s restive North […]

The International Press Institute welcomes a Slovakian Constitutional Court ruling that the judiciary violated the rights of a Slovakian weekly magazine and failed to take into account the principle of freedom of expression when it directed the magazine to pay SKK 250,000 (EUR 8,300) to a judge for defamation of his character. The ruling of […]

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South East and Central Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), is alarmed at the political pressure being exercised on media in both Romania and Bulgaria. According to information received by SEEMO, on 13 April […]