The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the killing of Hang Serei Oudom, a reporter with the Cambodian local language newspaper Vorakchun Khmer Daily. According to reports, Oudom, who had been missing since Sunday evening, was found dead yesterday in an abandoned vehicle in a cashew nut plantation in the northern Ratanakiri province, with several […]

An Afghan radio journalist was beheaded Tuesday night in the country’s southeast province of Paktika, according to news reports. AFP quoted a local official as saying that Samid Khan Bahadarzai, 25, had been lured to a meeting with unidentified men hours before his body was found near his home in Urgun, a town close to […]

AFP stringer Mazhar Tayyara was killed last night in the besieged Syrian city of Homs – which has been under Syrian army shelling for days – according to news reports. Tayyara, 23 or 24 years old according to different reports, provided video footage and information to AFP, the Guardian, Die Welt and had appeared on […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today denounced Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s statements regarding the circumstances surrounding the 2012 death of IPI World Press Freedom Hero Marie Colvin in Syria, calling the comments irresponsible and ignorant of Syria’s international obligations. On July 13, Assad spoke with NBC News extensively on a variety of topics, including Colvin’s […]