On 4 March, journalist Giuliana Sgrena was wounded in the shoulder when US-led coalition forces fired on her. Nicola Calipari, an Italian secret service agent who was travelling in the same car as Sgrena, was killed in the incident. The shooting apparently occurred close to a military checkpoint in Baghdad and came shortly after kidnappers […]

Last week’s arrest in Azerbaijan of Mehman Aliyev, head of the independent Turan Information Agency, and the criminal charges his news outlet faces have renewed concerns about deteriorating media freedom in the country, where at least 11 other journalists are currently behind bars. Aliyev, who has headed the news agency since its founding in 1990, […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, leading journalists and media executives in over 112 countries, is deeply concerned about the murder of Vasily Grodnikov, a freelance correspondent for the Narodnaya Volya newspaper. Grodnikov was found dead with a head wound in his home in Zaslauje, near Minsk, on 18 October 2005. […]

According to information before IPI, Magomedzagid Varisov, a prominent journalist and political analyst, was shot and killed on 28 June 2005, in Mahachkala, capital of Russia’s republic of Dagestan. Varisov was returning home with his wife, when unidentified assailants opened fire on his car. Varisov was fatally wounded and died at the scene. His wife […]