On Tuesday, November 14, Russian media quoted Khadzhikurbanov’s lawyer, Alexey Mikhalchik, who explained that his client was first recruited as a prisoner, was later pardoned and now participates in the war as a contracted fighter. According to the lawyer, Khadzhikurbanov was pardoned by President Vladimir Putin six months after joining the army, in accordance with […]

The IPI global network condemns the killing of journalist Abdoul Aziz Djibrilla, and the abduction of two others, on November 7, by an insurgency group in northern Mali.  Djibrilla was working for the local media outlet Naata de Labbezanga in Mali’s Kidal region,  the epicenter of violence wrought by two main insurgency groups the Islamic […]

The IPI global network demands more efforts by the international community to locate and help secure the release of Ukrainian journalists missing or detained in unclear circumstances while reporting in territories occupied by Russia. Such cases have become increasingly frequent over the past months, according to IPI monitoring. On October 30, Russian occupying authorities communicated […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today, on Nov. 2, International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, joins with the Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) to express our concern over the lack of progress on 11 cases of killed journalists in Somalia. We call on the authorities to demonstrate their commitment to ensuring that crimes […]