The International Press Institute (IPI) and over 30 free expression groups yesterday called for Russia’s Investigative Committee to take over the investigation into the July 2013 murder of Dagestani editor Ahkmednabi Akhmednabiyev and to end the cycle of impunity for crimes against journalists in the country. The groups made the call to Aleksandr Bastrykin, head […]

The 2006 murder of Russian investigative journalist and International Press Institute (IPI) World Press Freedom Hero Anna Politkovskaya is emblematic of the state of impunity for such crimes in her country, yet she is only one of at least 62 journalists to have lost her life in Russia since 1997, according to IPI’s Death Watch. […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on authorities in the Russian Republic of Dagestan to thoroughly investigate the murder of a newspaper editor outside his home yesterday morning and to bring those responsible to justice. According to international reports, unidentified assailants shot local journalist Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev yesterday morning while he was in his car […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) was saddened this week to learn of the deaths of four journalists killed while covering violent clashes near Daraa, Syria. Al Jazeera said yesterday that one of its correspondents, Mahran Al Deeri, died on Wednesday in the city of Sheikh Maskin. According to members of Al Deeri’s family quoted by […]