Latest News on Journalist Safety and Impunity

Media workers killed in India, Pakistan and Syria

The International Press Institute (IPI) condemned the recent killings of journalists in Pakistan, India and Syria and reiterated its deep concern over the disappearance of three journalists in Syria, who have been missing for several weeks. In Pakistan, Abdul Haq Baloch, 37, correspondent for ARY News television station and Secretary of the Khuzdar Press Club, […]

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Environmental journalist killed in Cambodia

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the killing of Hang Serei Oudom, a reporter with the Cambodian local language newspaper Vorakchun Khmer Daily. According to reports, Oudom, who had been missing since Sunday evening, was found dead yesterday in an abandoned vehicle in a cashew nut plantation in the northern Ratanakiri province, with several […]

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Afghan journalist beheaded

An Afghan radio journalist was beheaded Tuesday night in the country’s southeast province of Paktika, according to news reports. AFP quoted a local official as saying that Samid Khan Bahadarzai, 25, had been lured to a meeting with unidentified men hours before his body was found near his home in Urgun, a town close to […]

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Journalist-activist reportedly killed in Syria

AFP stringer Mazhar Tayyara was killed last night in the besieged Syrian city of Homs – which has been under Syrian army shelling for days – according to news reports. Tayyara, 23 or 24 years old according to different reports, provided video footage and information to AFP, the Guardian, Die Welt and had appeared on […]

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