The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned Thursday’s murders of two journalists in the Central American countries of Guatemala and Honduras in unrelated attacks. Local TV presenter Yensi Roberto Ordoñez Galdámez was killed in the southern province of Escuintla, Guatemala. He was found in his car with stab wounds to the chest and neck, Guatemalan […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the killing of a journalist in western El Salvador. Radio host Nelson Hernandez was stabbed to death in the early hours on 8 June, the Spanish news agency EFE reported. He was reportedly found dead in a river. The journalist, a host at Radio SKY, was said to […]

Journalist Luis Eduardo Gómez was gunned down last week in Colombia, becoming the first journalist to be killed in that country this year. Gómez, 70, was murdered on 30 June in Arboletes (Antioquia) while walking home with his wife. The shooters escaped on motorbikes. An independent journalist who had recently been writing about tourism and […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed an appeals court ruling overturning the criminal conviction of a prominent Greek investigative journalist for defamation. A three-judge panel of the Athens Court of Appeal on Monday unanimously threw out the conviction of Kostas Vaxevanis, editor of the investigative magazine HotDoc. A lower court sentenced him to 26 […]