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Respected Mexican editor found dead

Jesús Antonio Gamboa Urías, a journalist and editor of the weekly online news site Nueva Prensa, was found dead last week in the north-western state of Sinaloa, considered one of Mexico’s most violent regions. The remains of Gamboa Urías, 39, were found riddled with gunshots in a rural village near the city of Los Mochis, […]

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SEEMO alarmed by assault on journalist in Kosovo

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) today expressed alarm at the attempted murder of journalist Milot Hasimja yesterday at a television studio in Kosovo. Local reports said that a man entered the newsroom of the headquarters of private broadcaster Klan Kosova in Pristina and repeatedly stabbed Hasimja in the head and neck as the […]

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IPI welcomes ECHR rulings in Iceland, Poland defamation cases

The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed two recent European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decisions upholding the media’s right to report on issues of public concern in the face of libel suits. In the first ruling, Erla Hlynsdóttir v. Iceland [No.2],published on Oct. 21, the Court unanimously ruled that Iceland violated a journalist’s right […]

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Venezuelan authorities block Grupo Infobae website again

Argentine news organisation Grupo Infobae said this week that Venezuelan authorities have blocked access to an online platform the group created to circumvent a similar block on its main website less than two weeks ago. The group announced that it was setting up a new domain, Infobae.media, in the wake of authorities’ decision to block […]

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