Three journalists for Sri Lanka’s Lanka Irida newspaper arrested on Wednesday by police in the southern Deniyaya region have yet to be released – less than a week after another Sri Lankan journalist, J.S Tissanayagam, was handed a 20-year prison sentence for criticizing the Sri Lankan government offensive against Tamil Tiger rebels, and allegedly accepting […]

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 […]