On November 9, 2021, Rasha Abdullah Al-Harazi, a journalist from Yemen, died in a targeted car bomb attack while she was nine months pregnant. Al-Harazi had also received many threats in the months before her death, Khalid Ibrahim of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights told IPI last year. “By phone she was told to stop doing journalism”, he said. “But we didn’t know it would be this serious.”
More Articles
Recent Posts
- IJ4EU awards €490,000 to 14 new investigations April 8, 2025
- Turkey: Detained Swedish journalist Joakim Medin must be released immediately April 3, 2025
- Czech Republic: IPI welcomes progress on securing public media funding April 2, 2025
- Local News Accelerator: Centrum Media revolutionizing local digital news coverage April 2, 2025
- Spyware attacks on BIRN Serbia journalists further deepen press freedom crisis March 28, 2025
- Serbia: Media freedom mission to visit Belgrade and Novi Sad March 28, 2025
- Turkey: MFRR partners call for an end to crackdown on journalists covering political protests March 28, 2025
- EU: European Commission must place media freedom at heart of Democracy Shield initiative March 27, 2025