The International Press Institute (IPI) today mourned the death of a female Kurdish journalist who died in a roadside blast near Mosul in Iraq on Saturday. Shifa Gardi, a 30-year-old reporter and anchor for the Iraqi Kurdish TV channel Rudaw, was working on a story on the Islamic State group when a bomb detonated, killing […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned a two-year prison sentence given to Azerbaijani photojournalist and blogger Mehman Huseynov, who was convicted of libel for having claimed he was mistreated while in police custody earlier this year. The claim arose after Huseynov was arrested on Jan. 9 for allegedly “disobeying” police. Huseynov, who was convicted […]

The killing of a Honduran journalist in Mexico – the ninth journalist slain there so far this year – again highlights an ongoing failure by authorities in that country to do enough to end violent attacks on journalists, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. Video journalist Edwin Rivera Paz, a former cameraman for Honduran […]

Hungarian courts’ doctrine of objective liability for media outlets quoting third parties presents a significant obstacle to the coverage of political affairs, a new study on civil defamation practice in Hungary has found. According to the study, released today by the International Press Institute (IPI), journalists in Hungary who quote or use information from a […]