The International Press Institute (IPI) on Wednesday expressed concern at the death of a Bolivian journalist who was killed by an explosive device which caused deadly injuries to his abdomen. David Niño de Guzman, news director of the Agencia de Noticias Fides in La Paz, was found dead 21 April on the shores of the […]

Two Turkish journalists died last week in eastern Turkey when their hotel collapsed in the region’s second major earthquake in the past month. Cem Emir and Sebahattin Yılmaz, both of Turkey’s Doğan News Agency (DHA), had been reported missing after a 5.6 magnitude earthquake struck the city of Van on Wednesday night.  Their bodies were […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on Russian authorities to conduct a thorough investigation into the stabbing death of a journalist working for a regional television company in northern Russia. Anatoly Bitkov, the chief editor of Kolyma Plus regional television company, was found dead in his apartment this morning in the city of Magadan […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today marked 11 years since the murder of Azerbaijani journalist Elmar Huseynov with a call on the country’s government to end impunity for attacks on journalists and to release those imprisoned in connection with their work. Huseynov, the editor-in-chief of Russian language magazine Monitor was gunned down on March 2, […]