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 […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the murder of Venezuelan journalist and opposition political activist Wilfred Iván Ojeda Peralta, whose handcuffed body was found dumped in a vacant lot with a bullet wound to the head. Ojeda, 56, was a columnist for El Clarín newspaper in the town of La Victoria and an activist […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today wrote an open letter to Honduran President Porfirio ‘Pepe’ Lobo Sosa, calling on him to ensure that the murders of journalists in the Central American country are promptly investigated and that the perpetrators are brought to justice before a climate of impunity takes firm root in the country. IPI […]