This spring, everyone who knew of Adeola Akinremi’s plans to travel to northeast Nigeria to report on the tens of thousands displaced by Boko Haram told him to be extremely careful. Some urged him not to go at all. But Akinremi, features editor of the independent daily ThisDay, was set on telling the victims’ stories […]

Paris-based watchdog group Reporters Without Borders today announced that four journalists imprisoned in Eritrea have died in custody. IPI expressed deep sorrow over the news and called on the Eritrean government to release those journalists still in custody, many of whom have been imprisoned for over ten years. Reporters Without Borders confirmed through sources that […]

A prominent local editor, newspaper owner and political organiser was gunned down today on the resort island of Phuket by unknown assailants on a motorbike in what appears to have been a targeted killing. According to local media, Wisut Tangwitthayaporn, owner of the Inside Phuket newspaper and editor of Phuket E-news, was driving with his […]

A journalist was killed on 5 January on the southern Philippines’ island of Mindanao, confirming the Philippines’ reputation as one of the world’s most dangerous countries for journalists. At least four journalists were killed in retaliation for their reports in 2011, according to IPI’s recently-released Death Watch figures, and a total of 57 journalists have […]