The International Press Institute (IPI) today wrote an open letter to Honduran President Porfirio ‘Pepe’ Lobo Sosa, calling on him to ensure that the murders of journalists in the Central American country are promptly investigated and that the perpetrators are brought to justice before a climate of impunity takes firm root in the country. IPI […]

Read in English A un mes de que el periódico digital Salvadoreño El Faro publicara un reportaje que desató revuelo en el país e intensificó amenazas contra sus periodistas, el Instituto Internacional de la Prensa (IPI, por sus siglas en inglés), pidió hoy al gobierno de El Salvador que tome medidas eficaces para proteger la […]

Brazilian radio director and producer Jose Givonaldo Vieira was killed by unidentified gunmen on 14 December in Bezerros, in northeastern Pernambuco state, according to reports. Vieira owned the newspaper Folha do Agreste and hosted a cultural program on Rádio Bezerros FM, a station operated by the paper, media reports said. Three men intercepted Vieira’s car […]

The editor-in-chief of western Turkish newspaper Güney Marmara’da Yaşam (Life in Southern Marmara) was ambushed and shot while leaving his office on Friday afternoon. Cihan Hayırsevener, 53, succumbed to his injuries later that evening in the Uludağ University Medical Faculty hospital in Bursa, according to news reports. A funeral service was held for Hayirsevener on […]