In honor of World Press Freedom Day, the International Press Institute announces a week-long series of correspondent diary entries from journalists working in two of the world’s most dangerous countries for journalists. Every day this week, IPI will publish another entry from each of the reporters, Iqbal Athas from Colombo, Sri Lanka and Mohammed Ibrahim from Mogadishu, […]

A freelance journalist and filmmaker has gone missing under suspicious circumstances from the tribal areas around the city of Kohat in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan according to a senior editor for a broadcaster with whom the reporter was working, and a source at Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper. The senior broadcast editor asked that neither […]

The International Press Institute’s (IPI) Nepal National Committee today welcomed the decision of police in Dailekh, in mid-western Nepal, to prosecute suspects allegedly involved in the 2004 abduction and subsequent killing of Dailekh-based journalist Dekendra Thapa. Dailekh district police arrested five individuals all belonging to the then-Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). A further four accused, […]

Kyrgyz journalist Gennady Pavlyuk died this morning in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Almaty, Kazakhstan from serious injuries sustained when he was thrown from the window of a sixth-floor apartment in a residential building in Almaty, media reports said. Pavlyuk was found unconscious with duct tape around his feet and hands and […]