A freelance journalist was shot on Friday afternoon in Baghlia, a town 60 kilometers east of the capital, Algiers, Reuters reported. According to the news agency, Ahmed Nezar was a correspondent for several local French newspapers. While the reason for his killing is still not known, Reuters said “the killing revived memories of the 1990s […]

Lea en español The International Press Institute (IPI) today announced it will conduct missions to four Caribbean countries this summer as the next step in an ongoing effort to abolish criminal defamation laws in the region. IPI Representatives, including Executive Director Alison Bethel McKenzie, will travel in June to the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Barbados, and […]

With a heavily bandaged head and a noticeable speech impediment, Peruvian reporter Jaime Núñez del Prado described to fellow journalists how four men stormed into his broadcasting studio on Monday and badly beat him – on the orders, he said, of the local mayor. Núñez del Prado told television cameras he believes Calca Mayor Condori […]

Unidentified men on Wednesday gunned down a Peruvian television presenter outside his home, making him the second journalist murdered in just over a week and the third to be killed in the country this year. The Lima-based Press and Society Institute (IPYS) reported that José Oquendo Reyes, the director and presenter of BTV Channel 45 […]