Jorge Ochoa Martinez on Friday became the third journalist to be assassinated in Mexico in 21 days. According to IPI Death Watch figures, at least 11 journalists were killed because of their job in Mexico in 2009. Ochoa Martinez was the editor and owner of two publications, El Sol de la Costa and El Oportuno, which covered local […]

Three decades after Abdi Ipekci, editor-in-chief of the Turkish daily Milliyet, was shot dead in his car on 1 February 1979 by Mehmet Ali Agca, a right-wing militant who later escaped from jail and attempted to assassinate Pope John Paul II in May 1981, IPI is still calling for justice. On 18 January, Ali Agca […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) is to participate in a panel discussion on Freedom of Speech and Self-Censorship at a two-day regional conference in Beirut on censorship, organised by the Lebanon-based SKeyes free media group. The organisation was founded following the assassination of An-Nahar journalist Samir Kassir in June 2005. Founded in 2009, SKeyes covers press freedom […]

The European Court of Human Rights has ordered Turkey to pay a total of over 40,000 Euros to 20 Turkish journalists as compensation for having violated their rights. In two separate cases, the Court ruled on 26 January that Turkey had violated freedom of speech laws when it suspended five newspapers and sentenced a magazine […]