The IPI global network condemns the double suicide bomb attack that killed one journalist, Mohamed Isse Koonaa, and injured two others and scores of other people on October 29, 2022, in Mogadishu, the capital city of Somalia. According to a statement by the Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS), Mohamed Isse Koonaa, a journalist working with Universal […]

The IPI global network condemns the raid by Indian police on top editors at the Indian news site The Wire after a complaint by a communications offical of Indian’s ruling party. On October 31 police in Delhi searched the homes of The Wire editors Siddharth Varadarajan, MK Venu, Sidharth Bhatia, and Jahnavi Sen as well […]

States must urgently do more to protect the safety of journalists and bring those responsible for attacks on the media to justice, the International Press Institute (IPI) said to mark International Day to End Impunity on November 2, 2022. Journalists uncover truth and hold the powerful to account. They bring us critical news and information […]

To mark International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, the International Press Institute (IPI) today joins with four other press freedom groups to publish a full-page print ad in The Washington Post calling for an independent, U.S.-led investigation into the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.  On May 11, 2022, Abu Akleh […]