Latest News on Journalist Safety and Impunity

Two journalists killed in Guinea while covering Ebola outbreak

The International Press Institute (IPI) is saddened by news of the death of two journalists in the West African nation of Guinea.  According to the BBC, the journalists’ bodies were found in a septic tank along with five other bodies believed to be health workers. The journalists had disappeared last Tuesday, along with three doctors, […]

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IPI urges stepped-up probe into death of Filipina journalist

The International Press Institute today urged Philippine authorities to step up their investigation into the killing of a veteran newspaper journalist who was shot multiple times in an attack at her home last week. Rubylita Garcia, who had worked for the daily Remate for 20 years, was shot in front of her son and 10-year-old […]

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Journalist killed in Afghanistan

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on authorities in Afghanistan to apprehend the assailants who gunned down a journalist at his home last weekend. The Afghanistan Journalists Center (AFCJ) reported that Khalid Agha Yaqubi, 27, was killed on Saturday in northern Afghanistan. The AFCJ said Yaqubi was shot by assailants who had been searching […]

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Press freedom in Iraq plummets to ‘worst level in over a decade’

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today condemned the brutal climate of repression and censorship against media outlets in Iraq and called on authorities to immediately reverse blanket internet blackouts and forced closures of TV and radio stations. As deadly anti-government protests entered […]

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