Latest News on Journalist Safety and Impunity

Kyrgyz journalist dies in Kazakhstan after being thrown from window

Kyrgyz journalist Gennady Pavlyuk died this morning in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Almaty, Kazakhstan from serious injuries sustained when he was thrown from the window of a sixth-floor apartment in a residential building in Almaty, media reports said. Pavlyuk was found unconscious with duct tape around his feet and hands and […]

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New York Times journalist kidnapped four days ago in Afghanistan freed; Afghan interpreter dies in crossfire

A New York Times reporter kidnapped four days ago in Kunduz, Afghanistan, has been freed in a military operation that reportedly left his Afghan translator, a British soldier and an Afghan woman dead. Armed gunmen seized Stephen Farrell and his translator, Sultan Munadi, on 5 September while they were reporting on a NATO raid on […]

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IPI condemns Venezuelan journalist’s murder

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the murder of Venezuelan journalist and opposition political activist Wilfred Iván Ojeda Peralta, whose handcuffed body was found dumped in a vacant lot with a bullet wound to the head. Ojeda, 56, was a columnist for El Clarín newspaper in the town of La Victoria and an activist […]

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After third journalist killed in two weeks, IPI calls on Honduran President to take immediate action

The International Press Institute (IPI) today wrote an open letter to Honduran President Porfirio ‘Pepe’ Lobo Sosa, calling on him to ensure that the murders of journalists in the Central American country are promptly investigated and that the perpetrators are brought to justice before a climate of impunity takes firm root in the country. IPI […]

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