Latest News on Journalist Safety and Impunity

Cameraman killed in Iraq bomb attack

A freelance cameraman for US-funded Al-Hurra TV satellite channel was among 10 Iraqis killed in violence across Baghdad and the north of the country on Monday. Tahrir Kadhim Jawad was killed when a magnetic “sticky bomb” attached to his car detonated in the town of Garma, 50 km (30 miles) west of the Iraqi capital.  […]

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Young Iraqi journalist shot and killed in front of family

Gunmen shot and killed a young journalist in Iraq, at home in front of his family on Sunday, CNN reported, quoting an Interior Ministry official. Mazin al-Baghdadi was employed as an anchor and reporter for al-Mousiliyya TV in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul, according to news reports. The gunmen were dressed as civilians, arrived at […]

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Prominent Sri Lankan journalist’s body exhumed

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 […]

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Russian journalist conducting training beaten

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 […]

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