Latest News on Journalist Safety and Impunity

Two Iraqi journalists killed in Syria handed over at border

The bodies of two Iraqi journalists, Ali Juburi al-Kaabi and Falah Taha who were killed in Damascus on Saturday were handed over across the Syrian border with Iraq on Monday, according to news reports. “The (Syrian) intelligence and police handed them over with the medical report of the hospital to al-Waleed outpost today (Monday),” Colonel […]

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Three more media workers killed in Syria

Three more media workers lost their lives in Syria this week, according to reports. The International Press Institute (IPI) condemned the killings, and called on all sides to respect the role of journalists in covering the conflict. On Wednesday, Sep. 26, Press TV correspondent Maya Naser, 32, was killed by a sniper in Damascus while […]

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Journalists killed in India, Syria

The number of deaths of journalists in an already-record-breaking year continued to inch higher over the last week, as one journalist was killed by reported rebels in Syria and another shot dead by police amid anti-rape protests in India. The International Press Institute (IPI)’s Death Watch stood at 132 following Sunday’s death of Indian journalist […]

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Third journalist killed in India’s Bihar in eight months

The third murder of a journalist in the last eight months in India’s eastern Bihar state yesterday illustrates the danger of allowing such crimes to continue to be met with impunity, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today as it urged authorities to fully investigate the case. Unidentified men gunned down Braj Kumar Singh, a […]

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