IPI is saddened by the Wednesday 2 September murder in El Salvador’s Tonacatepeque municipality of French-Spanish photojournalist and documentary-maker Christian Poveda. Police found Poveda’s body in a car in the small village of El Rosario, with multiple bullet wounds to the head. Poveda, who had closely followed the lives of El Salvador’s ‘Mara 18’ gang […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) warmly welcomes news of the release of six Gambian journalists sentenced to a two-year prison term in early August on charges of seditious publication and criminal defamation. News of a presidential pardon was announced on state-run GRTS television on Thursday evening, local sources told IPI.  A statement issued by President […]

Russia’s Supreme Court on Thursday granted a request by family members of murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya to send the case back for further investigation, rather than immediately retry three individuals acquitted of the killing earlier this year. Politkovskaya, a special correspondent at Russia’s fiercely independent Novaya Gazeta newspaper, was gunned down in her apartment block […]

In an unprecedented ruling, on Wednesday, a United States federal judge ordered the Cuban Communist Party and the government of Raul Castro to pay a total of US$27.5 million to the mother of jailed Cuban journalist Omar Rodriguez Saludes – for whose release IPI has intensively campaigned as part of its Justice Denied Campaign. “This […]