Authorities in Peru must fully investigate a violent attack in which assailants reportedly tried to cut out a journalist’s tongue, leaving him hospitalised in critical condition, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. Lima-based media NGO the Institute for Press and Society (IPYS) reported that unidentified assailants attacked Marco Bonifacio Sánchez, host of the program […]

The Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) welcomed Austria’s assumption of the 2017 chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) last week, calling on the country to use the opportunity to strengthen cooperation to protect and promote media freedom among OSCE participating states. Austrian Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs […]

Authorities in Azerbaijan should thoroughly investigate a blogger’s accusations that police officers abducted and tortured him, rather than investigating the blogger for allegedly slandering police, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. The country’s Ministry of Internal Affairs said yesterday that it had complained to prosecutors after blogger and activist Mehman Huseynov claimed that men […]

Paul Khlebnikov, editor-in-chief of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine, was shot and killed outside his office in Moscow on 9 July. Khlebnikov, 41, an American of Russian descent, was shot from a passing car about 100 meters from Forbes’ editorial offices in northern Moscow after he left work in the evening. He was hit […]