The International Press Institute (IPI) is concerned at the death of journalist Wael Yunna and reports of attacks on private television stations during deadly clashes on Sunday between protestors speaking out against perceived religious discrimination, and the military who were also supported by a group of protestors. Wael Yunna, a reporter for a Coptic television […]

A freelance journalist was shot on Friday afternoon in Baghlia, a town 60 kilometers east of the capital, Algiers, Reuters reported. According to the news agency, Ahmed Nezar was a correspondent for several local French newspapers. While the reason for his killing is still not known, Reuters said “the killing revived memories of the 1990s […]

With a heavily bandaged head and a noticeable speech impediment, Peruvian reporter Jaime Núñez del Prado described to fellow journalists how four men stormed into his broadcasting studio on Monday and badly beat him – on the orders, he said, of the local mayor. Núñez del Prado told television cameras he believes Calca Mayor Condori […]

Unidentified men on Wednesday gunned down a Peruvian television presenter outside his home, making him the second journalist murdered in just over a week and the third to be killed in the country this year. The Lima-based Press and Society Institute (IPYS) reported that José Oquendo Reyes, the director and presenter of BTV Channel 45 […]