According to information before IPI, Magomedzagid Varisov, a prominent journalist and political analyst, was shot and killed on 28 June 2005, in Mahachkala, capital of Russia’s republic of Dagestan. Varisov was returning home with his wife, when unidentified assailants opened fire on his car. Varisov was fatally wounded and died at the scene. His wife […]

Those who planted the car bomb that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005 did not stop there. Among those targeted were journalists. In June 2005, history professor and An-Nahar columnist Samir Kassir was killed in a car bomb outside his house. Three months later, May Chidiac, a presenter for LBC television, survived […]

It has been 15 years since prominent Russian journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya was brutally murdered after receiving several threats. Her death shocked the nation and made headlines all over the world. Until this day it is unclear who ordered the assassination. On October 7, 2006, Politkovskaya was carrying groceries to her central […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, strongly condemns the fatal attack on U.S. journalist and author Steven Vincent by unidentified gunmen in Iraq. According to information before IPI, Vincent and his Iraqi translator Nouriya Ita’is were abducted at gunpoint by five men in a police car […]