The International Press Institute (IPI) condemns the murder on Tuesday of Dagestan-based newspaper editor Malik Akhmedilov, who was found dead in his car near the republic’s capital Makhachkala with bullet wounds to the stomach. Akhmedilov’s killing starkly underscores Russia’s worrying reputation as one of the most dangerous countries in the world for reporters.  According to […]

Women experience online abuse differently – and to a different degree. The same goes for female journalists.

Frauen erleben Beschimpfungen im Netz in anderer Quantität und Qualität. Das gilt auch für JournalistInnen.

The International Press Institute (IPI) today criticised a Kazakhstan court’s decision sentencing the head of the country’s Journalists Union and National Press Club and his son to lengthy prison terms on corruption charges that rights defenders have decried as politically motivated. An Astana court convicted Seitkazy Matayev of tax evasion and embezzlement yesterday and handed […]