A journalist in Lagos State, Nigeria, was gunned down on Saturday in an unexplained killing. Edo Sule Ugbagwu, 42, worked as the judiciary correspondent for the Mushin-based newspaper, the Nation. Ugbagwu was shot dead by two gunmen who came to his home around 7pm on 24 April. The Nation’s own report about the murder says he had just […]

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South East and Central Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), condemns a court decision to reject charges against six people who allegedly threatened to murder Serbian journalist Brankica Stankovic – a reporter for B92 TV programme […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) welcomes a decision by the European Court of Human Rights ordering the immediate release of Eynulla Fatullayev, an Azeri journalist who was sentenced in 2007 to eight-and-a-half years in prison for defamation and “fomenting terrorism” through his articles. The Court yesterday voted six to one that Azerbaijan had violated Fatullayev’s […]

A journalist was killed on Tuesday 20 April in the northern Honduras city of San Pedro Sula, taking the total number of reporters killed in the country in the past six weeks to seven. According to local media sources, Jorge Alberto Orellana, host of the program ‘En Vivo con Georgino’ at private local television station […]