At least 48 journalists have been killed in the line of duty in Pakistan in the last 10 years, and 35 of them were deliberately targeted and murdered because of their work.  In 2012 alone, five journalists were killed in the country, according to IPI’s Death Watch.  For every journalist who has been deliberately targeted […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed grave concern at the sentencing of Cuban reporter José Antonio Torres to 14 years in prison for espionage. A journalist for the state-run newspaper Granma, Torres was detained on March 11, 2011, shortly after publishing a pair of articles containing criticism of a government aqueduct project near the […]

VA media building in Gaza was hit by Israeli missiles for the second time in two days, resulting in the death of a leader from the militant group Islamic Jihad and the injury of several others, reports said. This was the second time that the building has been targeted within the last 36 hours. Reuters […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed news that a Turkish cameraman held in Syria for three months has been freed, but called for the release of the man’s colleague and two other journalists believed to be held in the country. Turkish daily Hürriyet reported that Cüneyt Ünal, a cameraman with the U.S.-funded Arabic-language satellite […]