The recent deaths of three journalists in Lebanon, Somalia, and Indonesia bring the number of journalists killed so far in 2012 to 35 – keeping this year on track to be the deadliest for the media since International Press Institute (IPI) record-keeping began in 1997. At this same point last year, 23 journalists had been […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the continued attacks against citizen reporters in Syria by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad. On May 27, three citizen reporters of the Shaam News Network were killed by security forces in the Al-Khalidiya neighborhood in Homs, according to Massoud Akko of the Syrian Centre for Media and […]

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 […]

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 […]