22 year old cameraman, Ahmed Ismael Al-Samadi was shot last night while covering a protest in Salmabad, according to reports. He was reportedly taken to International Hospital by his family and was later pronounced dead. According to the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR), a protest in Salmabad began peacefully and then was allegedly suppressed […]

The IPI global network for independent journalism condemns the killing of two Mexican journalists during the past week and calls for an immediate investigation by authorities in both cases. Last week, two veteran reporters in Mexico were murdered. On Thursday, October 28, reporter Fredy López Arévalo was murdered in his home in San Cristóbal de […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today strongly condemned the murders of three Mexican photojournalists and a newspaper employee, whose dismembered bodies were found wrapped in plastic bags and dumped in a canal in the state of Veracruz yesterday. The gruesome discovery in the port town of Boca del Río came as IPI marked World Press […]

Mexican crime reporter Victor Manuel Báez Chino was killed on Thursday morning in Xalapa, the capital of the State of Veracruz. He had been kidnapped on Wednesday evening after he left his office. Báez Chino covered the police beat for the local edition of the newspaper Milenio in Xalapa. He was also the editor of […]