Latest News on Journalist Safety and Impunity

Mexican journalist killed in Sinaloa

A Mexican journalist abducted by gunmen earlier this week in the western Mexican state of Sinaloa was found dead yesterday. Police found the body of Humberto Millán Salazar, the editor of online newspaper A Discusión and a morning news presenter on Radio Fórmula, in a farm building outside the state capital of Culiacán with a […]

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IPI commemorates International Women’s Day

The International Press Institute (IPI) today commemorated International Women’s Day by remembering eight female journalists who were murdered around the world in the past year and calling on authorities to bring their killers to justice. “The tragic deaths of eight of our female colleagues in Honduras, Mexico, Syria, Iraq, the Philippines and Bangladesh in the […]

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Journalist shot dead in Honduras

Honduran journalist Adán Benítez (42) was shot in the head on Monday, 4 July, after two individuals intercepted him and stole his belongings. The journalist and TV producer was killed while he was walking home in La Ceiba, Atléntida department, in the northern part of Honduras. Benítez worked for Radio Makintosh and La Ceiba´s 14 […]

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Pro-Zelaya journalist gunned down in Honduras

According to media reports, 26-year-old Nery Jeremias Orellana was riding a motorcycle to work in the morning when he was stopped and shot in the head by unidentified assailants. He was found on the road connecting  San Lorenzo village to Candelaria. He died later in a hospital. Orellana headed Radio Joconguera de Candelaria in the […]

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