The number of deaths of journalists in an already-record-breaking year continued to inch higher over the last week, as one journalist was killed by reported rebels in Syria and another shot dead by police amid anti-rape protests in India. The International Press Institute (IPI)’s Death Watch stood at 132 following Sunday’s death of Indian journalist […]

The third murder of a journalist in the last eight months in India’s eastern Bihar state yesterday illustrates the danger of allowing such crimes to continue to be met with impunity, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today as it urged authorities to fully investigate the case. Unidentified men gunned down Braj Kumar Singh, a […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed concern over the Sept. 5 sentencing of Zhalaudi Geriev, a journalist with the Russian news website Kavkazsky Uzel (Caucasian Knot), by a court in Chechnya to three years imprisonment for alleged marijuana possession. IPI Director of Advocacy and Communications Steven M. Ellis expressed fears that the charges against […]

The International Press Institute condemned the Israeli Defense Forces’ apparent total disregard for international standards on the protection of journalists and the treatment of journalists in a conflict zone, following the military’s targeted assassination of three journalists in Gaza. Two journalists from Al Aqsa TV were killed yesterday while driving in their company car, while […]