Week after week, Slovak people have taken part in large protests since the murders of investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his partner, archaeologist Martina Kušnírová, in February. Kuciak’s murder comes only five months after Daphne Caruana Galizia, a Maltese investigative journalist, was killed in a car bombing. The murders raise serious concerns about press freedom […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined 16 other European and international press freedom groups in calling on the European Commission to ‘step up’ efforts to protect journalist safety following the murders of Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta and Ján Kuciak. Kuciak, an investigative journalist with the portal Aktuality.sk, was found shot dead at home […]

Slovak police this week detained several suspects in relation to the gruesome murder of journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée. Those detained include several Italian businessmen who were named in Kuciak’s posthumously published reporting as allegedly having links to the notorious ‘Ndrangheta mafia as well as to officials close to Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico. […]

Two Mexican journalists have been murdered in separate attacks since the beginning of July, raising the number of killings of journalists in the country to nine so far in 2018. Rubén Pat Cahuich, director of the Playa News online news site, was shot dead in the street outside a bar in Playa del Carmen, in […]