The International Press Institute (IPI) today mourned the death of a female Kurdish journalist who died in a roadside blast near Mosul in Iraq on Saturday. Shifa Gardi, a 30-year-old reporter and anchor for the Iraqi Kurdish TV channel Rudaw, was working on a story on the Islamic State group when a bomb detonated, killing […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned a two-year prison sentence given to Azerbaijani photojournalist and blogger Mehman Huseynov, who was convicted of libel for having claimed he was mistreated while in police custody earlier this year. The claim arose after Huseynov was arrested on Jan. 9 for allegedly “disobeying” police. Huseynov, who was convicted […]

The killing of a Honduran journalist in Mexico – the ninth journalist slain there so far this year – again highlights an ongoing failure by authorities in that country to do enough to end violent attacks on journalists, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. Video journalist Edwin Rivera Paz, a former cameraman for Honduran […]

Lea este artículo en español Dominican Republic investigators need to conduct a full investigation into the murder of two media workers killed yesterday when unidentified gunmen entered the radio station where they worked and opened fire, the International Press Institute (IPI) said. Presenter Luis Manuel Medina with radio station FM 103.5 in San Pedro de […]