A Reuters cameraman was among at least 21 people killed in clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces in Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, on Saturday. Hiro Muramoto, 43, a Japanese national who had been employed with Reuters’ Tokyo bureau for the past fifteen years, was reporting on the violence that gripped Bangkok over the weekend, when […]

The Thai authorities forced opposition TV broadcaster People TV off the air again on Saturday, a day after opposition ‘Red Shirt’ protestors overran an army blockade and briefly forced the government to reverse its earlier decision to censor the channel. An army spokesperson said security forces had taken action at the broadcaster late on Friday, […]

The Gambian founder and managing director of Jollof News Online, Yusupha Cham, who lives in exile in Birmingham, UK, told IPI on Wednesday that he has received three emailed death threats since the beginning of the year. Copies of the emails were forwarded to the IPI Secretariat in Vienna. The first email, from a Hotmail […]

Sixteen years after the start of the Rwanda genocide, the International Press Institute (IPI) spoke with Rwandan journalist Faith Mbabazi, chief editor of Radio Rwanda, the country’s largest radio station, based in Kigali. Although she was only 16 when the killings began, Mbabazi – who also heads the Association of Rwanda Women In the Media […]