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 […]

A New York Times reporter kidnapped four days ago in Kunduz, Afghanistan, has been freed in a military operation that reportedly left his Afghan translator, a British soldier and an Afghan woman dead. Armed gunmen seized Stephen Farrell and his translator, Sultan Munadi, on 5 September while they were reporting on a NATO raid on […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined calls for Russia to free a Ukrainian journalist detained late last week on charges of espionage, voicing concern that the arrest was a politically motivated move to impact the ongoing conflict between the two countries. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) detained Roman Sushchenko, 47, a foreign correspondent for Ukrainian […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the murder of Venezuelan journalist and opposition political activist Wilfred Iván Ojeda Peralta, whose handcuffed body was found dumped in a vacant lot with a bullet wound to the head. Ojeda, 56, was a columnist for El Clarín newspaper in the town of La Victoria and an activist […]