The International Press Institute’s (IPI) Nepal National Committee today welcomed the decision of police in Dailekh, in mid-western Nepal, to prosecute suspects allegedly involved in the 2004 abduction and subsequent killing of Dailekh-based journalist Dekendra Thapa. Dailekh district police arrested five individuals all belonging to the then-Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). A further four accused, […]

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 […]