The body of slain newspaper editor and International Press Institute (IPI) World Press Freedom Hero Lasantha Wickrematunge was exhumed yesterday at Colombo’s general cemetery in the presence of a magistrate and under tight security as part of a fresh investigation into his death. Wickrematunge’s grave had been under armed guard since a new autopsy was […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on Russian authorities to bring to justice those responsible for yesterday’s assault on well-known investigative journalist Grigory Pasko, who was attacked while in the city of Barnaul in Russia’s Altai region to train local journalists. Pasko, director of the Community of Investigative Journalists – Fond 19/29, said that […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the killing of prominent Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar, who was gunned down yesterday outside a courthouse in the capital Amman where he was to stand trial for a social media post sharing a satirical cartoon deemed offensive to Islam. A controversial political commentator and columnist, Hattar, 56, was […]

British photojournalist Giles Duley, who was seriously injured by a roadside bomb, on 7 February, while embedded with US and Afghan troops in Kandahar, Afghanistan, returned to England on 13 February for further medical treatment. The 39-year-old photojournalist, who specialized in humanitarian issues and cooperated with various charity organizations, had to undergo multiple amputations at […]