The International Press Institute deplores the brutal murder of María Elizabeth Macías Castro, 39. The journalist was abducted on Friday, 23 September, and her body was found the next day in Nuevo Laredo city, in the border state of Tamaulipas.  According to news reports, she was decapitated and left near a monument to Christopher Columbus […]

Umar Cheema is an investigative journalist for The News, the largest English-language newspaper in Pakistan. He was awarded the Daniel Pearl Journalism Fellowship in 2008, during which he worked at The New York Times. In September 2010, Cheema was abducted, beaten, purposely humiliated, photographed against his will and dumped six hours later outside Islamabad. Immediately after […]

“In the past year, the IPI has done so much in defending the right to freedom of expression and I would like to express my utmost respect to it,” Mr. Den-yi Wu, Premier of the Republic of China (Taiwan), noted during the closing ceremony of the 2011 IPI World Congress in Taipei, Taiwan (ROC) on […]

Rodney Pinder is the director of International News Safety Institute (INSI), an independent, non-profit organization aimed at ensuring the safety of journalists. Pinder is a former senior foreign correspondent and news executive for Thomson Reuters. IPI: INSI has been described as a unique organization. What makes it different from other press freedom organizations such as […]